Alan Kennedy wrote: > [Fredrik Lundh] > > but isn't libxml2dom just a binding for libxml2? as I mention above, I had > > libxml2 > > in mind when I wrote "widely used", not the libxml2dom binding itself. > > No, libxml2dom is Paul Boddie's DOM API compatibility layer on top of > the cpython bindings for libxml2.
So a binding that just passes things through to another binding is not a binding? Alright, let's call it a compatibility layer then. > > but libxml2 is also widely used, so we have at least two ways to > > interpret the spec. > > Don't confuse libxml2dom with libxml2. As Paul has said several times, libxml2dom is just a thin API compatibility layer on top of libxml2. It's libxml2 that does all the work, and the libxml2 authors claim that libxml2 implements the DOM level 2 document model, but with a different API. Maybe they're wrong, but wasn't the whole point of this subthread that different developers have interpreted the specification in different ways ? </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list