[XML-SIG] Consensus: Python mapping for DOM attributes?

[Jim Fulton]

OK, I'm told that there was a decision made last November that attributes
defined by DOM are mapped to both Python attributes and accessor functions.

This means that DOM clients can use either "direct attribute access":

  node.parent

or an accessor method:

  node._get_parent()

An implementor of the Python DOM API must support both
methods of access.

I don't personally like this API very much, but I guess it's
to late to change it.

Jim

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