[XML-SIG] Different results on Windows and Linux

[Uche Ogbuji]

> Hi there
> 
> running the following little script on both windows (active state python
> 2.2.2 with pyxml 0.8.2) and linux (python 2.2.2 with same pyxml)
> 
> from xml.dom.minidom import parseString
> doc = parseString('<alpha><beta no="a"><gamma><delta>1</delta></gamma><delta mark="foo">2</delta><gamma mark="bar"><delta>3</delta></gamma></beta><beta no="b"><delta>4</delta><gamma><delta>5</delta></gamma></beta></alpha>')
> from xml import xpath
> from xml.xpath.Context import Context
> context = Context(doc, 0, 0)
> print xpath.Evaluate('/alpha/beta[attribute::no = 1]', context=context)
> 
> results in [] (correct) on windows and [<DOM Element: beta at 0x820fd54>, 
> <DOM Element: beta at 0x8209a74>] (wrong) on Linux.
> 
> This probably has todo with Python's broken NaN implementation.
> Nevertheless it should work on all platforms.

Ouch. This is still a bug in the latest 4Suite (which I recommend over the 
XPath bundled in PyXML for now).  I filed:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=695819&group_id=39954&
atid=428292


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