Issue 1371937: minidom namespace problems (original) (raw)

Noted on c.l.py: the minidom writexml() function doesn't tidy up namespace declarations, so you can output documents that have incorrect namespace declarations.

DOM Level 3, appendix B, specifies an algorithm for normalizing namespaces; see http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Core/namespaces-algorithms.html . minidom probably needs to acquire the normalizeNamespace method, and then writexml() can call it before doing its work.