annoying DOM limitation

From: Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 19:49:15 +0000
Subject: annoying DOM limitation
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While hacking on a PHPDoc -> WSDL generator, I ran into an annoying limitation in the dom extension: you can't add a namespace to a dom document unless you have an element in that namespace. Why might you want to do this? Well, a common thing is to have your xml-schema types to be specified as attribute values, i.e. <element name="foo" type="xsd:string"/> for this to work I need xsd to be an alias for http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema. To work around this, I added a DomElement::addNS($uri, $alias) method to Dom. Adding the namespace 'manually' as an attribute on an element does not work. I know this isn't part of the Dom spec, but it's incredibly useful. Does anyone (Rob, Chegru) mind me adding it to HEAD? George George Schlossnagle -- Vice President of Engineering -- OmniTI Computer Consulting -- http://www.omniti.com

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