bpo-33274: Compliance with DOM L1: return removed attribute #7465
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There should be a note in the xml.dom.minidom documentation about the change, but... I'm not at all sure how to reasonably fit it in, given the docs refer to the DOM Level 1 specification for actual API details.
We might just need to leave that out, aside from the change blurb.
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| "The Attr node that was removed." xml.dom.minidom now complies with this | |||
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Trailing period, please. (Yes, I'm picky!)
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W3C DOM Level 1[1] requires
removeAttributeNode()to return the removed node:removeAttributeNode: Removes the specified attribute.
Return Value: The Attr node that was removed.
Current implementation returns
None.[1]https://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-DOM-Level-1-19981001/level-one-core.html#method-removeAttributeNode
https://bugs.python.org/issue33274