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  r85530 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 17:32:05 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  Refrain from using inline suites.
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  r85532 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 18:03:02 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #7771: reference to documentation of dictview methods and operations.
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  r85533 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 18:07:41 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #9683: remove broken dead code dealing with nested arguments removed from Py3k, and update the docs and docstrings accordingly.
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  r85534 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 18:19:43 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #9801: document how list and dict proxies created by Managers behave w.r.t. mutable items.
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  r85538 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 18:35:46 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #7303: add documentation for useful pkgutil functions and classes.
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  r85539 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 18:42:14 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  Fix issue references.
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  r85540 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 18:42:37 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #6798: fix wrong docs for the arguments to several trace events.
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  r85541 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 18:53:24 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #4968: updates to inspect.is* function docs.
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  r85542 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 19:01:15 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #7790: move table of struct_time members to the actual description of struct_time.
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  r85543 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 19:03:02 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #4785: document strict argument of JSONDecoder, plus add object_pairs_hook in the docstrings.
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  r85546 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 19:58:45 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #5762: fix handling of empty namespace in minidom, which would result in AttributeError on toxml().
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  r85547 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 20:00:35 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #6098: Refrain from claiming DOM level 3 conformance in minidom.
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  r85548 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 21:46:19 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #10072: assume a bit less knowledge of the FTP protocol in the ftplib docs.
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_minidom.py b/Lib/test/test_minidom.py
index 461ac65..c58d17d 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_minidom.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_minidom.py
@@ -1479,6 +1479,13 @@ class MinidomTest(unittest.TestCase):
         doc.appendChild(doc.createComment("foo--bar"))
         self.assertRaises(ValueError, doc.toxml)
 
+    def testEmptyXMLNSValue(self):
+        doc = parseString("<element xmlns=''>\n"
+                          "<foo/>\n</element>")
+        doc2 = parseString(doc.toxml())
+        self.confirm(doc2.namespaceURI == xml.dom.EMPTY_NAMESPACE)
+
+
 def test_main():
     run_unittest(MinidomTest)