On 2011-12-14, at 20:41 , Stefan Behnel wrote:
> I meant: "lack of interest in improving them". It's clear from the discussion
> that there are still users and that new code is still being written that uses
> MiniDOM. However, I would argue that this cannot possibly be performance
> critical code and that it only deals with somewhat small documents. I say
> that because MiniDOM is evidently not suitable for large documents or
> performance critical applications, so this is the only explanation I have why
> the performance problems would not be obvious in the cases where it is still
> being used. And if they do show, it appears to be much more likely that users
> rewrite their code using ElementTree or lxml than that they try to fix
> MiniDOM's performance issues.
Could also be because "XML is slow (and sucks)" is part of the global
consciousness at this point, and that minidom is slow and verbose doesn't
surprise much.
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