+ if node.nodeType == xml.dom.Node.ELEMENT_NODE and node.namespaceURI == "http://template.sesse.net/":
+ # as this is a dummy node, we want to remove it and move everything further up
+ # after we've done any required replacements
+ doc = _get_document_element(node)
+ parent = node.parentNode
+
+ while not node.firstChild is None:
+ child = node.firstChild
+ node.removeChild(child)
+ parent.insertBefore(child, node)
+
+ parent.removeChild(node)