From ca6ce26b0dd4975d3f5e0b5209a6a66a7dadbed5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lance Stout Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:40:58 -0400 Subject: Added comments to _fix_ns to clarify the cleaning procedure. --- sleekxmpp/xmlstream/stanzabase.py | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'sleekxmpp') diff --git a/sleekxmpp/xmlstream/stanzabase.py b/sleekxmpp/xmlstream/stanzabase.py index 8814df78..9785da0b 100644 --- a/sleekxmpp/xmlstream/stanzabase.py +++ b/sleekxmpp/xmlstream/stanzabase.py @@ -765,17 +765,24 @@ class ElementBase(object): False, which returns a flat string path. """ fixed = [] + # Split the XPath into a series of blocks, where a block + # is started by an element with a namespace. ns_blocks = xpath.split('{') for ns_block in ns_blocks: if '}' in ns_block: + # Apply the found namespace to following elements + # that do not have namespaces. namespace = ns_block.split('}')[0] elements = ns_block.split('}')[1].split('/') else: + # Apply the stanza's namespace to the following + # elements since no namespace was provided. namespace = self.namespace elements = ns_block.split('/') for element in elements: if element: + # Skip empty entry artifacts from splitting. fixed.append('{%s}%s' % (namespace, element)) if split: -- cgit v1.2.3