Re: [Tclxml-users] Possible bug with xml default namespace serialization?

[Steve B. <Ste...@zv...>]

Looks like a bug to me.  I'll make sure the test suite has a test case
for this situation.

Given your previous post, I assume you're using 3.0b1?
The pure-Tcl implementation?

Cheers,
Steve Ball

On 05/01/2004, at 11:59, Steve McMillen wrote:

> I am seeing behavior which I do not expect but I'm not positive its a 
> bug.  If I serialize an XML document with a default namespace (e.g. 
> xmlns="some-uri"), I get an null namespace in the output elements 
> (e.g. <:tag> instead of <tag>).
>
> For example, I parse the following XML using dom::parse
>
> <rootnode xmlns="http://myuri">
>   <tag>value</tag>
> </rootnode>
>
> Then I serialize the dom with dom::serialize, I get the following:
>
> <?xml version='1.0'?>
> <!DOCTYPE :rootnode>
> <:rootnode xmlns:="http://myuri">
>   <:tag1>value</:tag1>
> </:rootnode>
>
> Note the semicolon before the element names.  I did not expect this 
> semicolon to be included.
>
> Am I defining my XML document incorrectly?  It was my understanding 
> that the default namespace (xmlns w/o any suffix) was the namespace 
> for any element that did not have an explicit namespace attached.  I 
> would expect the output from the serialize function to be identical to 
> the input in this case.
>
> I made a tweak to the dom library as follows which results in the 
> behavior I desired:
> Change line 2851 in dom.tcl (tcldom 3.0b1) from:
>        } elseif {[string length $node(node:namespaceURI)]} {
> to:
>        } elseif {[string length $node(node:namespaceURI)] && \
>           [string length [GetNamespacePrefix $token 
> $node(node:namespaceURI)]]} {
>
> * This does not fix the printing of the xmlns attribute in the root 
> element and the DOCTYPE.
>
> but I'm not sure if this is the right thing to do.  Essentially my 
> goal was that if the xmlns prefix is null, then don't prepend.  There 
> might be a more appropriate place to handle this thought (if indeed I 
> am using XML correctly).
>
> If needed, let me know and I'll log a bug.
>
> Thx, Steve
>
>
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