Mike Brown wrote: > Catching up on some python-dev email, I was surprised to see that things seem > to be barrelling ahead with the adding of ElementTree to Python core without > any discussion on XML-SIG. Sidestepping XML-SIG and the proving grounds of > PyXML in order to satsify the demand for a Pythonic databinding+API for XML in > stdlib seems to be a bit of a raised middle finger to those folks who have > worked hard on competing or differently-scoped APIs, each of which deserves a > bit more peer review than just a single nomination on python-dev, which seems > to be all it took to obtain a blessing for ElementTree.
I didn't really feel like the proposal was out of the blue. The proposal has been brought up before, both on python-dev[1] and the python-list[2]. ElementTree has a pretty large following - if you look at XML-based questions on the python-list, I can almost guarantee you that someone will give an elementtree solution to it (and not just Fredrik). I don't know much about any other APIs, so I'm not going to try to claim it's the best API or anything, but it is the best of what seems to have any user visibility on the python-list. [1]http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-June/054092.html [2]http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-December/314288.html STeVe -- You can wordify anything if you just verb it. --- Bucky Katt, Get Fuzzy _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
