How does xml.dom.minidom compare?

[Philipp Lenssen]

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?