PyXML difficulties

[Paul Boddie]

On 21 Mai, 22:58, emperorcezar <emperorce... at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm new to using the xml libs. I'm trying to create xml pragmatically,
> but I'm finding an issue. I have two elements I'm creating using
> createElementNS two elements (soap:Envelope and context). Each having
> a different namespace. When I print the created xml, the namespace
> attribute gets moved from the context element to the envelope element.
> Is there a reason for this, and how can I get it to not do that?

Having the default namespace declared on an ancestor of the context
element is completely valid in this case, since the soap:Envelope
element is associated with a different namespace. You could see what
happens if you serialise the document using a different library
function or document/node method, however.

> Code:
>     from xml.dom import implementation
>     from xml.dom.ext import PrettyPrint
>
>     namespace = 'http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope'
>
>     # create XML DOM document
>     doc = implementation.createDocument(None, '', None)

[...]

Note that according to the specifications, the element name should be
None (null) for this kind of createDocument invocation. See here for
details:

http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Core/core.html#Level-2-Core-DOM-createDocument

Paul