[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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