Dear SIG members,
I have some XML tools written in Perl that I would like to rewrite in Python and make namespace-aware at the same time.
What I now have is based on xml.sax, but yesterday I noticed that some of the namespace features are not supported (yet).
The section on xml.sax.handler in the library reference says: " In addition to these classes, xml.sax.handler provides symbolic constants
for the feature and property names" and then gives a list of features and properties. The source for xml/sax/xmlreader.py, however, does not implement features and properites, and instead throws an exception when you call e.g. getFeature or setFeature.
When will features and properties of SAX2 be properly supported in xml.sax? Or should I forget about xml.sax and move to xml.dom, for example? The latter doesn't appeal to me, since I prefer minimal XML APIs and I find DOM too big and too cluttered.
Regards,
Nico Poppelier
P.S. Some years ago, I was editor of the W3C Math Working Group and did of lot of XML-related work, but with my present job XML is an activity for the occasional free weekend.
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