#5762: fix handling of empty namespace in minidom, which would result in AttributeError on toxml().
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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+- Issue #5762: Fix AttributeError raised by ``xml.dom.minidom`` when an empty
+  XML namespace attribute is encountered.
+
 - Issue #2830: Add the ``html.escape()`` function, which quotes all problematic
   characters by default.  Deprecate ``cgi.escape()``.