Don't use string methods to allow sharing this code with PyXML.

diff --git a/Lib/xml/dom/minidom.py b/Lib/xml/dom/minidom.py
index b2b6e7db0a229fe9d6d0e1d232ffc5fb0c350485..3ed72366748a99336f9d692451b88eab24adba31 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/xml/dom/minidom.py
+++ b/Lib/xml/dom/minidom.py
@@ -391,7 +391,8 @@ class Text(Node):
         _write_data(writer, self.data)
 
 def _nssplit(qualifiedName):
-    fields = qualifiedName.split(':', 1)
+    import string
+    fields = string.split(qualifiedName,':', 1)
     if len(fields) == 2:
         return fields
     elif len(fields) == 1: