Henry S. Thompson wrote: -- Start of PGP signed section. > I've spent the last day exploring the state of 0.8.4 and SAX2, and as > far as I can see the following is the case: > > * Only expat of the distributed SAX2 parsers supports start/endPrefixMapping > * Only expat of the distributed SAX2 parsers supports setDocumentLocator > > Given that I need a validating parser, that's a bit unfortunate. > > PyXML hasn't moved forward for some time -- is the energy for Python > and XML going somewhere else, or does no-one care enough about > validation. . .?
I think people do care about DTD-based validation...maybe not as much as they used to, but it's still important. The momentum behind PyXML has indeed stalled quite a bit, though, as demonstrated by the fact that no one responded to your post before now. > Not a criticism, a genuine request for information. I am prepared to > look at either > > 1) Building a validator on top of expat; > 2) Adding support for start/endPrefixMapping and (easy) > setDocumentLocator to SAX2/xmlproc. > > if there's really nothing else out there. Expat 2.0.0, released in January, supports validation. I don't know if it is going to be included in Python 2.5. According to PEP 356, it's on the "Possible features" list and a patch has been submitted, and personally I think it'd be a good idea to include it. It would save you a lot of work. 4Suite already uses Expat 2.0.0 and supports validation with it. setDocumentLocator and start/endPrefixMapping are supported. See http://4suite.org/docs/CoreManual.xml#saxlette for general info, and http://skew.org/~mike/4suite-docs/html/modules/Ft.Xml.Sax.html (not-so-temporary temporary location) for generated API docs. Mike _______________________________________________ XML-SIG maillist - XML-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/xml-sig
