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authorAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2010-10-27 18:43:21 +0000
committerAntoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>2010-10-27 18:43:21 +0000
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svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k ........ r85858 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-10-27 20:33:30 +0200 (mer., 27 oct. 2010) | 5 lines Issue #5027: The standard `xml` namespace is now understood by xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator as being bound to http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace. Patch by Troy J. Farrell. ........
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diff --git a/Lib/xml/sax/saxutils.py b/Lib/xml/sax/saxutils.py
index 46818f3d81..97d65d8fd3 100644
--- a/Lib/xml/sax/saxutils.py
+++ b/Lib/xml/sax/saxutils.py
@@ -103,6 +103,12 @@ class XMLGenerator(handler.ContentHandler):
def _qname(self, name):
"""Builds a qualified name from a (ns_url, localname) pair"""
if name[0]:
+ # Per http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace, The 'xml' prefix is
+ # bound by definition to http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace. It
+ # does not need to be declared and will not usually be found in
+ # self._current_context.
+ if 'http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace' == name[0]:
+ return 'xml:' + name[1]
# The name is in a non-empty namespace
prefix = self._current_context[name[0]]
if prefix: