Short summary:

  This is a version bump to REXML 3.1.4 for Ruby HEAD.  This change log is
  identical to the log for the 1.8 branch.

  It includes numerous bug fixes and is a pretty big patch, but is nonetheless
  a minor revision bump, since the API hasn't changed.

  For more information, see:

    http:/www.germane-software.com/projects/rexml/milestone/3.1.4

  For all tickets, see:

    http://www.germane-software.com/projects/rexml/ticket/#

  Where '#' is replaced with the ticket number.

Changelog:

* Fixed the documentation WRT the raw mode of text nodes (ticket #4)
* Fixes roundup ticket #43: substring-after bug.
* Fixed ticket #44, Element#xpath
* Patch submitted by an anonymous doner to allow parsing of Tempfiles.  I was
  hoping that, by now, that whole Source thing would have been changed to use
  duck typing and avoid this sort of ticket... but in the meantime, the patch
  has been applied.
* Fixes ticket:30, XPath default namespace bug.  The fix was provided
  by Lucas Nussbaum.
* Aliases #size to #length, as per zdennis's request.
* Fixes typo from previous commit
* Fixes ticket #32, preceding-sibling fails attempting delete_if on nil nodeset
* Merges a user-contributed patch for ticket #40
* Adds a forgotten-to-commit unit test for ticket #32
* Changes Date, Version, and Copyright to upper case, to avoid conflicts with
  the Date class.  All of the other changes in the altered files are because
  Subversion doesn't allow block-level commits, like it should.  English cased
  Version and Copyright are aliased to the upper case versions, for partial
  backward compatability.
* Resolves ticket #34, SAX parser change makes it impossible to parse IO feeds.
* Moves parser.source.position() to parser.position()
* Fixes ticket:48, repeated writes munging text content
* Fixes ticket:46, adding methods for accessing notation DTD information.
* Encodes some characters and removes a brokes link in the documentation
* Deals with carriage returns after XML declarations
* Improved doctype handling
* Whitespace handling changes
* Applies a patch by David Tardon, which (incidentally) fixes ticket:50
* Closes #26, allowing anything that walks like an IO to be a source.
* Ticket #31 - One unescape too many
  This wasn't really a bug, per se... "value" always returns
  a normalized string, and "value" is the method used to get
  the text() of an element.  However, entities have no meaning
  in CDATA sections, so there's no justification for value
  to be normalizing the content of CData objects.  This behavior
  has therefore been changed.
* Ticket #45 -- Now parses notation declarations in DTDs properly.
* Resolves ticket #49, Document.parse_stream returns ArgumentError
* Adds documentation to clarify how XMLDecl works, to avoid invalid bug reports.
* Addresses ticket #10, fixing the StreamParser API for DTDs.
* Fixes ticket #42, XPath node-set function 'name' fails with relative node
  set parameter
* Good patch by Aaron to fix ticket #53: REXML ignoring unbalanced tags
  at the end of a document.


git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@10092 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/lib/rexml/element.rb b/lib/rexml/element.rb
index 7f578ecb3d..80463d95b7 100644
--- a/lib/rexml/element.rb
+++ b/lib/rexml/element.rb
@@ -36,8 +36,6 @@ module REXML
 		# 	If an Element, the object will be shallowly cloned; name, 
 		# 	attributes, and namespaces will be copied.  Children will +not+ be
 		# 	copied.
-		# 	If a Source, the source will be scanned and parsed for an Element,
-		# 	and all child elements will be recursively parsed as well.
 		# parent:: 
 		# 	if supplied, must be a Parent, and will be used as
 		# 	the parent of this object.
@@ -223,7 +221,7 @@ module REXML
 		#  b.namespace("y")      # -> '2'
 		def namespace(prefix=nil)
 			if prefix.nil?
-				prefix = self.prefix()
+				prefix = prefix()
 			end
 			if prefix == ''
 				prefix = "xmlns"
@@ -715,7 +713,7 @@ module REXML
 
 		private
     def __to_xpath_helper node
-      rv = node.expanded_name
+      rv = node.expanded_name.clone
       if node.parent
         results = node.parent.find_all {|n| 
           n.kind_of?(REXML::Element) and n.expanded_name == node.expanded_name 
@@ -1226,5 +1224,20 @@ module REXML
 			rv.each{ |attr| attr.remove }
 			return rv
 		end
+    
+    # The +get_attribute_ns+ method retrieves a method by its namespace
+    # and name. Thus it is possible to reliably identify an attribute
+    # even if an XML processor has changed the prefix.
+    # 
+    # Method contributed by Henrik Martensson
+    def get_attribute_ns(namespace, name)
+      each_attribute() { |attribute|
+        if name == attribute.name &&
+           namespace == attribute.namespace()
+          return attribute
+        end
+      }
+      nil
+    end
 	end
 end