Properly delegate startElementNS in saxutils.XMLFilterBase. Fixes #936637.

Backported to 2.3.

diff --git a/Lib/xml/sax/saxutils.py b/Lib/xml/sax/saxutils.py
index 6544f171d9c8b1392ca1705f18c4c830042b458d..4737d76aa03bd8dac112cf10e3b231c2d3536b1e 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/xml/sax/saxutils.py
+++ b/Lib/xml/sax/saxutils.py
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ class XMLFilterBase(xmlreader.XMLReader):
         self._cont_handler.endElement(name)
 
     def startElementNS(self, name, qname, attrs):
-        self._cont_handler.startElement(name, attrs)
+        self._cont_handler.startElementNS(name, qname, attrs)
 
     def endElementNS(self, name, qname):
         self._cont_handler.endElementNS(name, qname)