How does xml.dom.minidom compare?

[Martin v. Loewis]

"Philipp Lenssen" <phil at mrinfo.de> writes:

> I saw some differences listed regarding xml.dom and xml.dom.minidom at
> http://www.python.org/dev/doc/maint22/lib/dom-objects.html . I will probably
> start to collect experiences soon but does anybody already have some
> performance experiences? And are they practically interchangeable, so that
> one could replace the one with the other at a later point without much
> hassle?

Yes, the goal is that DOM implementations can be easily replaced with
each other. For minidom, 4DOM, and 4Suite's cDomlette, this works
pretty well.

Regards,
Martin