lxml/ElementTree and .tail

[Paul McGuire]

"Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote in message 
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>
> (XML is a bit unusual in this respect, but that's probably just some 
> variation of the bikeshed effect.  it's just text, and everyone with
> a keyboard knows what that is, so we don't need to use established 
> software engineering practices, or think about security *at all* (Billion 
> laughs? XXE?) or, for that matter, learn from people who's
> been doing data interchange in other domains since the dawn of time. and 
> when they do appear anyway, and mess with our technology in ways that we 
> haven't authorized, without reading our books or going to our seminars or 
> subscribing to our mailing lists, we can write them off as "clueless 
> muppet teenage genius code-jockeys", and keep patting our- selves on the 
> back, while the rest of the world is busy routing around us, switching to 
> well-understood XML subsets or other serialization formats, simpler and 
> more flexible data models, simpler API:s, and
> more robust code.  and Python ;-)
>

maybe time to switch to decaf... :)