I wrote: > Frankly, if at any time in the past several years the XML-SIG had > published their consensus report on the "preferred API for XML" > (or perhaps "preferred small set of APIs, each tuned for a specific > purpose"), I expect it would have been incorporated in the core.
Martin v. Löwis objected: > That's not true. The current xml package *is* the consensus of > xml-sig. Fred Drake clarifies > It pretty much was at the time, at any rate. It's not clear to me that the > xml package shipped in 2.4 and several preceeding versions of Python would > pass muster in the current XML-SIG. Yes, I'm sorry about not being clearer, and thanks for correcting me. It was the more recent work in XML which I was thinking of. -- Michael Chermside _______________________________________________ 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