[XML-SIG] Python DOM Unification -- level

Fred L. Drake Fred L. Drake, Jr." <fdrake@acm.org
Tue, 27 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0400 (EDT)


Mike Olson writes:
 > We didn't want to pollute the Document API with all of these extra factory
 > methods.  We moved all of the stuff that you cannot build from a document
...
 > I think the factory methods would have to be DOM implementation specific.
...
 > I don't think that all python implementations should share base classes and
 > NodeLists, et al.  Each should have thier own implementation tailored to its
 > purpose, ie speed, orbed, lightweight

Mike,
  I think we agree.  ;-)  I'm happy with using a factory object to
gain access to node construction, and don't really care that much if
it's a separate object from the document object.


  -Fred

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