bug#59537: `libxml-parse-xml-region` strips out the namespace information, and namespace prefix in the DOM representation

[Stefan Kangas]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2022 16:21:30 +0530
>> Cc: 59537@debbugs.gnu.org
>> From: Ramesh Nedunchezian <rameshnedunchezian@outlook.com>
>>
>> On 24/11/22 15:52, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> >> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2022 14:31:52 +0530
>> >> From: Ramesh Nedunchezian <rameshnedunchezian@outlook.com>
>> >>
>> >> `libxml-parse-xml-region` strips out the namespace information, and 
>> >> namespace prefix in the DOM representation.
>> >>
>> >> Stripping out the NAMESPACE information is a bug.
>> > AFAICT, we just call a function from libxml2.  So I guess the bug is in 
>> > that
>> > library?
>>
>> Do I need to upgrade?
>
> I don't know.  I'm not sure the latest libxml2 has this fixed.
>
> I'm saying that you should probably discuss this with the libxml2
> developers.
>
>> I believe, libxml was introduced to cater to Eww's HTML rendering.
>
> No, we introduced it for any kind of HTML and XML processing we need.

Since this doesn't look like a bug in Emacs, I'm closing it now.  Please
report it to the libxml2 developers.  Thanks.