Re: sxml simple, sxml->xml and namespaces

[Andy Wingo]

On Mon 20 Jun 2016 12:52, Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:

> Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Apologies for the long delay here.  I'm with you regarding namespaces
>> and sxml->xml.  In the past I made sure to always get the namespaces
>> attached to the root element via the @ xmlns attributes, and then have
>> namespaced uses just be local names, not qnames, and that way sxml->xml
>> works fine.  But, perhaps that doesn't cover all cases in a nice way.
>> Do you still have thoughts on this patch?  Is the right thing for you?
>> In any case we need better documentation in the manual about how to deal
>> with namespaces and SXML, in practice, with examples.
>
> Here is another proposal, mirroring what is done in “xml->sxml”:

Neat!  Can you elaborate on how it is supposed to work?  In a final form
it would need documentation, tests, and an update to the docstring, but
I'd be interested in some xml->sxml->xml round trips as an example.

Andy