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I am considering the idea of using System.Xml as a Python DOM implementation again. After some experimentation, one issue is this: an idiomatic way to check for the type of DOM node in Python is: if node.nodeType == node.ELEMENT_NODE: nodeType is spelled NodeType with capital N in .NET, but that's fine. I can translate naming convention. The problem is that .NET's XmlNode type does not have attributes for DOM node types, that is, ELEMENT_NODE, ATTRIBUTE_NODE, etc. Instead, these attributes ara available under XmlNodeType enumeration, with wholly different names, like Element, Attribute, etc. My question is, why is this blatant incompatibility? DOM level 1 Core standard http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-DOM-Level-1/level-one-core.html seems to clearly say that Node interface should have constants like ELEMENT_NODE, ATTRIBUTE_NODE, etc. defined. -- Seo Sanghyeon _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com
