[XML-SIG] 4DOM future

[uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com]

Well with all the recent discussion, I thought I'd discuss our near-term plans 
for 4DOM and seek feedback.

As I've said, we plan to remove even the appearnace of CORBA from the next 
version.  There won't even be a "make".  It will ship as a straight Python 
package.  There will be separate add-on libs for Fnorb and ILU support, but 
most users needn't concern themselves with those.

Also, we are thinking of eliminating the getSpam() and setEggs() convention.  
Right now, one uses

node.getParent()

to access the DOM attribute

node.parent

We are thinking of simply doing the same thing in Python.

The problem is that DOM adherence is still very important to us, and there are 
some things we'd have to do that require __getattr__ and __setattr__, and I 
know that these can slow things down quite a bit.

I'm assuming that's why PyDOM uses

node.get_parent()

Any comment about the "right" way, Python as well as DOM-wise?

Thanks.

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