> On Feb 11, 2008, at 10:58 AM, Bob Kline wrote: >> Are there any plans to include the XML validation support in the >> standard Python libraries at some point? > > I don't know of any such plans at this time. Most programmers aren't > actually in need of schema-based validation most of the time, though > there are clearly times when it would be handy. Even then, however, > getting programmers to agree as to what's needed doesn't result in a > single clear set of requirements, mostly due to the variety of schema > languages available; everyone needs something different.
Hmmm, at least, there are not so many important schema languages that are not supported by lxml (read: libxml2). I think the combined force of DTD, XML Schema, RelaxNG and Schematron should meet most people's needs. Actually, the only one that I could imagine being missing would be Examplotron. Stefan _______________________________________________ XML-SIG maillist - XML-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/xml-sig
