[XML-SIG] soapy hacking -- getAttributeNS

[Uche Ogbuji]

> Stupid question ... what's the proper way to retrieve the value of the name 
> attribute using pnode.getAttributeNS()?
> 
> >>> pnode = pnodes[0]
> >>> xml.dom.ext.PrettyPrint(pnode)
> 
> <port xmlns='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/' 
> xmlns:xsd='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema' xmlns:typens='urn:BarCodes' 
> xmlns:soapenc='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/' 
> xmlns:wsdl='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/' 
> xmlns:soap='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/' 
> binding='typens:BarCodesBinding' name='BarCodesPort'>
>   <soap:address location='http://www.flash-db.com/services/ws/barCodes.php'/>
> </port>
> >>> pnode.getAttributeNS('', 'name')
> ''
> >>> pnode.getAttribute('name')
> u'BarCodesPort'
> >>> pnode.getAttributeNS('http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/', 'name')
> ''
> >>> pnode.getAttributeNS('urn:BarCodes', 'name')
> ''

None represents the empty namespace, not ''.

You should use xml.dom.EMPTY_NAMESPACE

 
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