On 9 December 2011 18:15, Bill Janssen <jans...@parc.com> wrote: > I use ElementTree for parsing valid XML, but minidom for producing it. > > I think another thing that might go into "refreshing the batteries" is a > feature comparison of BeautifulSoup and HTML5lib against the stdlib > competition, to see what needs to be added/revised. Having to switch to > an outside package for parsing possibly invalid HTML is a pain.
For what little use I make of XML/HTML parsing, I use lxml, simply because it has a parser that covers the sort of HTML I have to deal with in real life. As I have lxml installed, I use it for any XML parsing tasks, just because I'm used to it. Paul _______________________________________________ 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
