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  r85858 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-10-27 20:33:30 +0200 (mer., 27 oct. 2010) | 5 lines

  Issue #5027: The standard `xml` namespace is now understood by
  xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator as being bound to
  http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace.  Patch by Troy J. Farrell.
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+- Issue #5027: The standard ``xml`` namespace is now understood by
+  xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator as being bound to
+  http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace.  Patch by Troy J. Farrell.
+
 - #7761: telnetlib.interact failures on Windows fixed.
 
 - Issue #5117: Case normalization was needed on ntpath.relpath(). And