Guido van Rossum wrote: > Unfortunately, all of these schemes break down if you have > non-identifier characters in attribute or element names, or if you > want to use namespaces, or if you want to insert entity references, > XML comments, or other funky stuff like DTDs or processing elements.
a useful design should support non-identifier characters, name- spaces, and comments/processing instructions, but should other- wise work on the infoset level (i.e. CDATA sections and entities doesn't have to be part of this). not sure about DTD:s; they're a whole can of works... (but I'm sure E4X etc can provide some ideas here). > Also, an important aspect of JavaScript's E4X standard is a standard > object model. I believe they use a standard DOM style API. In Python > unfortunately we have many different object models for XML -- minidom, > ElementTree, and I believe the XML-sig has its own standard (4Suite?). > I could handle multiple implementations (quack!) but we'd have to pick > an API -- AFAIK ElementTree and the DOM API are incompatible. why do you think I posted this to the "literal construction hooks" thread ? ;-) </F> _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
