Patch #103854: raises an exception if a non-Attr node is passed to
NamedNodeMap.setNamedItem(). Martin, should I sync the PyXML tree, too,
or do you want to do it? (I don't know if you're wrapping the 0.6.4
release right now.)
diff --git a/Lib/xml/dom/minidom.py b/Lib/xml/dom/minidom.py
index ef1a2bf..b4ae267 100644
--- a/Lib/xml/dom/minidom.py
+++ b/Lib/xml/dom/minidom.py
@@ -378,6 +378,9 @@
self.setNamedItem(node)
def setNamedItem(self, node):
+ if not isinstance(node, Attr):
+ raise HierarchyRequestErr, \
+ "%s cannot be child of %s" % (repr(node), repr(self))
old = self._attrs.get(node.name)
if old:
old.unlink()