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authorRuss Cox <rsc@golang.org>2013-09-15 11:29:06 -0400
committerRuss Cox <rsc@golang.org>2013-09-15 11:29:06 -0400
commit1385e394cf919e53a02ed4ecaef331a603128329 (patch)
tree88485b4f4fd986729953d841898ac254aecbc1b6 /src/pkg
parent89dacb9cca0a27da1efe0578cd0881b80b13ed45 (diff)
downloadgo-1385e394cf919e53a02ed4ecaef331a603128329.tar.xz
encoding/xml: document behavior for undefined name space prefixes
Fixes #5626. R=golang-dev, dominik.honnef CC=golang-dev https://golang.org/cl/13702043
Diffstat (limited to 'src/pkg')
-rw-r--r--src/pkg/encoding/xml/xml.go4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/pkg/encoding/xml/xml.go b/src/pkg/encoding/xml/xml.go
index 467c2ae14f..5b9d670024 100644
--- a/src/pkg/encoding/xml/xml.go
+++ b/src/pkg/encoding/xml/xml.go
@@ -150,6 +150,10 @@ type Decoder struct {
// d.Entity = HTMLEntity
//
// creates a parser that can handle typical HTML.
+ //
+ // Strict mode does not enforce the requirements of the XML name spaces TR.
+ // In particular it does not reject name space tags using undefined prefixes.
+ // Such tags are recorded with the unknown prefix as the name space URL.
Strict bool
// When Strict == false, AutoClose indicates a set of elements to