[lxml-dev] Request for help on testing new libxml2 feature

[Kasimier Buchcik]

Hi,

On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 20:55 +0100, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> regarding the remove-redundant-namespaces issue there are news:
> 
> kbuchcik implemented the xmlDOMWrapReconcileNamespaces in tree.c of
> libxml2 so it should remove redundant NS decl. However neither do I have
> any experience with libxml2 nor do I have the time to dig into it so
> that I can build a test program for this.
> 
> Thus I ask you guys here, who surely are libxml2 experts, if you could
> help me out here. Either some "hack" for lxml that allows me to test
> this or a small programm that takes an xml file and applies this
> function to it's DOM tree (and outputs the result) would be really
> great.

Note that removal of redundant ns-decls in 
xmlDOMWrapReconcileNamespaces() was committed to CVS just
yesterday and I fixed some bugs today; I peformed only rudimental
tests, so more testing would be appreciated.

Andreas' bug-entry:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=329347

Regards,

Kasimier