I was doing some tests on using this library and I noticed xml elements and attribute names could be created with mal-formed xml because special characters which can break validation are not cleaned or converted from their literal forms. Only the attribute values are cleaned, but not the names.

For example

import xml.dom

...
doc.createElement("p></p>") 
...

will just embed a pair of p tags in the xml result. I thought that the xml spec did not permit <, >, &, \n etc. in the element name or attribute name? Could I get some clarification on this, thanks!