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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/xml/sax/saxutils.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/xml/sax/saxutils.py | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/xml/sax/saxutils.py b/Lib/xml/sax/saxutils.py index 46946fc..625bc12 100644 --- a/Lib/xml/sax/saxutils.py +++ b/Lib/xml/sax/saxutils.py @@ -100,6 +100,12 @@ 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: |