[lxml-dev] redundant namespace declarations (was: pretty-printing)

[Albert Brandl]

Hi!

Thanks for the reply. 

On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 09:40:43PM +0100, Stefan Behnel wrote:
> 
> It's known - though not really a bug but rather an inconvenience.
> Currently, we use a function in libxml2 called xmlReconciliateNs() to
> fix the namespaces when merging trees. This function shows the above
> behaviour. To fix this, we'd have to implement our own version, which
> is a bit tricky and just wasn't important enough to try to get right
> so far. Note that even libxml2 had a (minor) bug up to version 2.6.26
> here, so it's really not trivial to get this kind of thing right.

It's not that important, and I'll find a way to use SubElement instead
of append. I just wanted to make sure that you know about this somewhat
unexpected behaviour.

Regards,

Albert