[XML-SIG] Python DOM Unification -- level

[Andrew M. Kuchling]

Paul Prescod writes:
>Shouldn't the exception objects and class constants be shared between DOM
>implementations?

	Good point; they could be, I suppose.

>Why do Node, NodeList and NamedNodeMap have to be top-level. Does it make
>sense for clients to construct them?

	For code like "if isinstance(obj, Node):..."; otherwise you'd
have no way of telling when a class instance is in fact a DOM node.  I
suppose you could do without NodeList and NamedNodeMap -- they should
simply resemble lists and dictionaries -- but Node is probably
required.

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