[XML-SIG] PyXML in Python 1.6: Drawbacks

[Paul Prescod]

"Jérôme Marant" wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Integrating as many modules as possible in Python 1.6 is just stupid.

Agreed.

> Every module has to be considered one after one.

Agreed.

> PyXML is the kind of module that should stay independant, for the
> following reasons:

PyXML is not a module. PyXML is a variety of modules in a very large
package. We have selected some of the most popular and static of those
modules, based primarily on industry standards, and integrated them into
Python 1.6.

> - XML and all related standards rapidly evolve

No, XML itself has not changed in three years. That's why we have had
XML support in for at least a year and a half...maybe longer. We are
just improving that support. Some of XML's related standards do change
rapidly. We are not providing support for most of those.

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