[XML-SIG] Developer's Day

[Fredrik Lundh]

> I don't think that XML is any more of an "add-on" to a modern scripting
> language than URL support or regular expression support.

one could say the same (or even more so) for the GUI,
but that hasn't exactly helped...

> I'm in the "batteries included" camp for this and several other reasons: 

but some batteries *are* include: "import xmllib" works
just fine in 1.5.2.

(the 1.6 version will support unicode, and will probably
also be much faster, thanks to the new regular expression
engine).

> * standard Python libraries may soon need XML support. If WebDAV takes
> off then there should be a libWebDAV right alongside libftp and libhttp.
> And libWebDAV will require XML

(shouldn't that be "webdavlib.py" or maybe just "davlib.py" ? :-)

the same thing can be said about XML-RPC and SOAP.
and by some reason, both xmlrpclib.py and soaplib.py
can both use xmllib.py if necessary...

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