Bob Kline wrote: > Bob Kline wrote: >> We've stumbled on a bug which causes spurious warning messages when >> validating against a certain DTD. This uses a package which isn't >> distributed with Active Python, so my first inclination was to file a >> bug with the maintainers of the PyXML package (a.k.a. python-xml). It >> turned out that there were two problems with this approach. The first >> is that this package is no longer maintained. The second problem is >> that the bug doesn't actually seem to be in the package itself. The >> first clue in this direction was that when I ran the repro case on an >> Ubuntu Linux workstation, the incorrect warning messages did not >> appear. So I pulled down the Ubuntu source package for python-xml and >> used it to install the package into my Active Python, and the problem is >> still present. This has been reproduced with multiple Windows operating >> systems, and multiple versions of Active Python (incuding the same >> version which is running on the Linux workstation without the buggy >> behavior). So it seems that there is some difference between Active >> Python's interpreter and libraries and the interpreter and libraries on >> Linux which cause the bug to appear in the former but not the latter. >> Should I file a bug report and post my repro case? >> >> > > Further digging appears to indicate that while the bug is unique to > Windows, it is not unique to ActiveState's distribution of Python. I > did a fresh install of python.org's Windows build, and the bug is still > present. So the likeliest explanation is a bug in the underlying > Microsoft libraries (something we've been bitten by on previous occasions).
Perhaps a bug in core Python's bug database would be useful. I don't know enough about the bug to know though. http://bugs.python.org/ > I have also learned (since posting the original message in this thread) > that although the Python XML SIG still describes PyXML as the premier > path to full XML support in Python on the SIG's home page [1] That is unfortunate. > , this > information is out of date, and lxml is now the preferred package for > full-strength XML programming in Python. > > Are there any plans for including this package with the ActiveState > distribution at some point in the future? Could you add a feature request for that: http://bugs.activestate.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=ActivePython I'm not sure when I'd be able to add it, but it is definitely a worthwhile module. Note that xml.etree is quite handy for XML processing -- but obviously not for things like validation, etc. that lxml provides. Trent -- Trent Mick trentm at activestate.com _______________________________________________ ActivePython mailing list ActivePython@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs Other options: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/ActivePython
