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RE: Python SAX utilities XML Generator and default namespaces

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• Subject: RE: Python SAX utilities XML Generator and default namespaces
• From: "Scott Wiseman" <scott@i...>
• Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:27:12 -0700
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• Thread-topic: Python SAX utilities XML Generator and default namespaces

-----Original Message-----
From: G. Ken Holman [mailto:gkholman@C...] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 12:53 PM
To: XML-Dev Mailing list
Subject: Re:  Python SAX utilities XML Generator and default
namespaces


I neglected to mention that today I downloaded Python 2.3.3 dated 
2003-12-18 and am getting this error ... I think I'm running with the 
latest stuff.

....................... Ken

At 2004-04-28 14:30 -0400, I wrote:
>Is there an incantation when using XMLGenerator for Python SAX to work
>with default namespaces?  Below is what I thought would be an identity 
>transform (modulo syntax issues) of an XML document, yet it is throwing
an 
>error when using the default namespace on input (but not when using a 
>prefixed namespace on input).
>
>Looking at the SAX Utilities documentation in Python I don't see any
>reference to the default namespace.
>
>Thanks for any help anyone can be on this.
>
>................... Ken
>
>
>Z:\data\KenData\dev\python>type passthrough.py
>import sys
>from xml.sax import make_parser, SAXParseException
>from xml.sax.saxutils import XMLGenerator
>
>handler = XMLGenerator()
>parser = make_parser()
>parser.setFeature( "http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces", 1 ) 
>parser.setContentHandler( handler )
>
>try: # processing the input file using the defined SAX events
>     parser.parse( sys.stdin )
>except IOError, (errno, strerror):
>     errorExit( "I/O error(%s): %s: %s" % (errno, strerror, file) ) 
>except SAXParseException:
>     errorExit( "File does not parse as well-formed XML: %s" % file )
>
># end of file
>
>Z:\data\KenData\dev\python>type pass1.xml
><a:doc xmlns:a="a"><hello/></a:doc>
>
>Z:\data\KenData\dev\python>python passthrough.py <pass1.xml <?xml 
>version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <a:doc 
>xmlns:a="a"><hello></hello></a:doc>
>Z:\data\KenData\dev\python>type pass2.xml
><doc xmlns="a"><hello/></doc>
>
>Z:\data\KenData\dev\python>python passthrough.py <pass2.xml <?xml 
>version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> Traceback (most recent call 
>last):
>   File "passthrough.py", line 11, in ?
>     parser.parse( sys.stdin )
>   File "p:\python\lib\xml\sax\expatreader.py", line 91, in parse
>     xmlreader.IncrementalParser.parse(self, source)
>   File "p:\python\lib\xml\sax\xmlreader.py", line 123, in parse
>     self.feed(buffer)
>   File "p:\python\lib\xml\sax\expatreader.py", line 144, in feed
>     self._parser.Parse(data, isFinal)
>   File "p:\python\lib\xml\sax\expatreader.py", line 253, in
start_element_ns
>     AttributesNSImpl(newattrs, qnames))
>   File "p:\python\lib\xml\sax\saxutils.py", line 95, in startElementNS
>     name = self._current_context[name[0]] + ":" + name[1]
>TypeError: unsupported operand types for +: 'NoneType' and 'str'
>
>Z:\data\KenData\dev\python>


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