Problem with Elementtree and XMLSchem instance type

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message
<6627204c-d0b1-456d-94bd-76d946ad21d9 at g6g2000pro.googlegroups.com>, Carl 
Banks wrote:

> On Aug 1, 5:43 pm, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand>
> wrote:
>
>> In message
>> <96e47fd8-c939-48a2-9a2b-92afa720c... at k1g2000prl.googlegroups.com>, Carl
>> Banks wrote:
>>
>>> My general feeling is that ElementTree is a lot handier for reading
>>> and writing your own XML formats, than for handling XML files produced
>>> by other tools.
>>
>> Why is that? I’ve successfully used it to parse SVG files produced by
>> Inkscape <http://github.com/ldo/dvd_menu_animator>.
> 
> I said it was not handy, not that is was not useful.

If you want to split hairs, I didn’t say it was “useful”, and I certainly 
found it very “handy” for that purpose.

> And you don't *have* to try to start an argument over every tiny thing
> you disagree with.

What else is USENET for? :)