Description
When an element declares a namespace prefix, xmldom copies the entire in-scope namespace map into a fresh object and keeps that copy on the element while it is open on the parse stack.
Recommendation
No fix is available yet. Followings are affected versions:
- >= 0.1.5, <= 0.6.0
References
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