commit b9cd72a9f776bc2b517e22af444dc14268f50b41
author Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> Fri Oct 15 17:58:45 2010 +0000
committer Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> Fri Oct 15 17:58:45 2010 +0000
tree 7792769589a501efcdedce5cd4356c5bcffa06aa
parent d4460aaacdae40505a4645a73c021bfc810c9cb3

#5762: fix handling of empty namespace in minidom, which would result in AttributeError on toxml().

Lib/xml/dom/minidom.py

diff --git a/Lib/xml/dom/minidom.py b/Lib/xml/dom/minidom.py
index 1beae0c..81a1330 100644
--- a/Lib/xml/dom/minidom.py
+++ b/Lib/xml/dom/minidom.py
@@ -301,9 +301,10 @@
 
 def _write_data(writer, data):
     "Writes datachars to writer."
-    data = data.replace("&", "&amp;").replace("<", "&lt;")
-    data = data.replace("\"", "&quot;").replace(">", "&gt;")
-    writer.write(data)
+    if data:
+        data = data.replace("&", "&amp;").replace("<", "&lt;"). \
+                    replace("\"", "&quot;").replace(">", "&gt;")
+        writer.write(data)
 
 def _get_elements_by_tagName_helper(parent, name, rc):
     for node in parent.childNodes: