[XML-SIG] Developer's Day

Walter Doerwald walter@data.franken.de
Wed, 22 Dec 1999 18:25:53 +0200


On Sun, 19 Dec 1999 18:50:32 +0100 Fredrik Lundh wrote:

> Sean Mc Grath <sean@digitome.com> wrote:
> > At 12:21 PM 12/18/99 -0600, Paul Prescod wrote:
> > > What's the point of standards if implementors violate them willy nill=
y?
>=20
> professional software development has always been
> (and will always be) about making the right tradeoffs.
> some examples:
>
>     the "xmllib" tradeoff is "if you have python, it's
>     there. cannot handle everything, so it's best
>     to use in cases where you know the source".
>
>     the "sgmlop" tradeoff is "like xmllib, but much
>     faster."
>=20
>     the "SXP" tradeoff (this is our upcoming sgmlop
>     replacement) is "like sgmlop, but usually faster,
>     fully supports utf-8 and unicode, and is written
                               ^^^^^^^
Does this mean UCS-2/UTF-16 encoded unicode like NotePad does on WinNT?

>     in pure python 1.6 (!)"

When?

> [...]

Servus...
	Walter

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