New method getnamespace.

Since the application never gets to see the namespace abbreviation
used in the XML document, but some applications may need to know them,
we provide this method.

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libxmllib.tex b/Doc/lib/libxmllib.tex
index 62fb26b7465bcb178edd8b192baccf69bdd067f0..10d76ec36c9aea94d62eff74c4e4961f6fa6fa0e 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/lib/libxmllib.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libxmllib.tex
@@ -92,6 +92,11 @@ Translate all entity and character references in \var{data} and
 return the translated string.
 \end{methoddesc}
 
+\begin{methoddesc}{getnamespace}{}
+Return a mapping of namespace abbreviations to namespace URIs that are
+currently in effect.
+\end{methoddesc}
+
 \begin{methoddesc}{handle_xml}{encoding, standalone}
 This method is called when the \samp{<?xml ...?>} tag is processed.
 The arguments are the values of the encoding and standalone attributes 

diff --git a/Lib/xmllib.py b/Lib/xmllib.py
index 06b599fa7654ec425536fdd4971c7713c14733f1..b8422cb4508c175d22f38059d2adf281c92805f2 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/xmllib.py
+++ b/Lib/xmllib.py
@@ -222,6 +222,13 @@ class XMLParser:
             else:
                 i = s + len(str)
 
+    # Interface - return a dictionary of all namespaces currently valid
+    def getnamespace(self):
+        nsdict = {}
+        for t, d, nst in self.stack:
+            nsdict.update(d)
+        return nsdict
+
     # Internal -- handle data as far as reasonable.  May leave state
     # and data to be processed by a subsequent call.  If 'end' is
     # true, force handling all data as if followed by EOF marker.