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+require 'rexml/document'
+require File.expand_path('../../../../spec_helper', __FILE__)
+
+describe "REXML::Element#namespaces" do
+  before :each do
+    doc = REXML::Document.new("<a xmlns='1' xmlns:y='2'><b/><c xmlns:z='3'/></a>")
+    @elem = doc.elements["//c"]
+  end
+
+  it "returns a hash of the namespaces" do
+    ns = {"y"=>"2", "z"=>"3", "xmlns"=>"1"}
+    @elem.namespaces.keys.sort.should == ns.keys.sort
+    @elem.namespaces.values.sort.should == ns.values.sort
+  end
+
+  it "returns an empty hash if no namespaces exist" do
+    e = REXML::Element.new "element"
+    e.namespaces.kind_of?(Hash).should == true
+    e.namespaces.should be_empty
+  end
+
+  it "uses namespace prefixes as keys" do
+    prefixes = ["y", "z", "xmlns"]
+    @elem.namespaces.keys.sort.should == prefixes.sort
+  end
+
+  it "uses namespace values as the hash values" do
+    values = ["2", "3", "1"]
+    @elem.namespaces.values.sort.should == values.sort
+  end
+
+end