[XML-SIG] The '_' thingy

[Uche Ogbuji]

> Uche Ogbuji wrote:
> > 
> > > Mike Olson wrote:
> > > >
> > > > So, I think I see this as a general concensius:
> > >
> > > Are you kidding?
> > >
> > > > 1.  DOM will never (in forseeable future) be used over an ORB, so the
> > > > IDL should be used as a guide.
> > >
> > > Uh, this doesn't make sense.
> > 
> > Please elaborate.
> 
> Mike says that DOM won't be used over an ORB and yet
> he says that (CORBA) IDL idle *should* be used as a guide.
> If we don't care about CORBA, why be guided by UDL?

I think you mis-read him.  I think by "guide", he means that the IDL should be 
a guiding formalism, not that the API must cooincide with what you get when 
you compile the IDL.  I thought we'd all got on the same side of this.

> > > > We should focus more on useability then
> > > > CORBA compliance.
> > > >
> > > > 2.  Most people will access the DOM via attributes.
> > >
> > > Who says? What do you have to support this? Most people
> > > will access the DOM through whatever interface we define.
> > 
> > Mike's support is that back when this SIG agreed upon attribute access as well
> > as _get/_set ops, most people said they'd prefer to just use plain attribute
> > access anyway, and the _get/_set was only needed for completeness.
> > 
> > Do you have any support to contradict his assertion?
> 
> In the discussion over the last few days, I've seen alot of confusion
> over what the Python DOM API actually is.  It's hard to believe that
> real consensus exists in such an environment.

If I understand how strict you're setting up the conditions for "real 
consensus" to be, I hardly thing there is any area of Python development (or 
of development in general) where you'll find real consensus.


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