[XML-SIG] DOM Extension Proposal

[Mike Olson]

Paul Prescod wrote:
> 
> Insofar as the DOM does not address Python's syntax overloading, it does
> not say what we must do in our overloading.
> 
> I propose that we extend the DOM with a new type AttributeList that is a
> subclass of NamedNodeMap:
> 
> It would override __getitem__ to return the *value* of the reference
> attribute node instead of a (often useless and annoying) attribute node
> object.

We inherit NamedNodeMap from UserDict now so we are not too far off. 
However, we do return the Attribute node.  I suppose we could override
this to return just the value of the node.

Anyone else's thoughts?

Mike

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