[XML-SIG] 4DOM HTML erroneously using NS methods

Uche Ogbuji uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com
Wed, 16 Jan 2002 17:51:07 -0700


In dom.ext.reader.Sgmlop.py and other places, The NS methods are erroneously 
being used for HTML DOM manipulation.  This breaks apps that are expecting the 
resulting nodes to have the mandated HTML DOM behavior (i.e. 
uppercase-normalized tagnames and the like).  In fact:

$ grep NS\( dom/html/*
grep: dom/html/CVS: Is a directory
dom/html/HTMLDocument.py:    def createElementNS(self, namespace, qname):
dom/html/HTMLElement.py:                self.attributes.setNamedItemNS(clone)
$

These shouyldn't even be defined for HTML interfaces.

The problem is that it would be a bit of a chore to carefully change things 
back so that the XML modules strictly use NS methods, and the HTML modules the 
non-NS modules.  It would probably be easiest for whomever made the changes to 
undo them.


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