On 12/12/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Martin> It's difficult to establish precise numbers, but I would expect > Martin> that most readers of xml-sig are well aware of how DOM and SAX > Martin> work, perhaps even better than ElementTree. > > Perhaps the corollary is that people who are not xml-sig readers will likely > be put off by DOM and SAX. I couldn't tell you what they do, just that they > were Too Hard (tm) for me to bother with XML in most situations. Then > ElementTree came along.
It seems pretty clear why DOM isn't Pythonic: it doesn't use Python's standard APIs for things that conceptually are "just" lists and dicts, or at least sequences and mappings. Also, the memory footprint is a bit outlandish. I don't think that SAX is unpythonic, but it's pretty low-level and mostly of use to people writing higher-level XML parsers (my parsexml module uses it). -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
