[XML-SIG] SAX2 in python20b1 usable?

[Jeremy Hylton]

>>>>> "PP" == Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net> writes:

  PP> Jeremy Hylton wrote:
  >> The implementation needs to work, too!  Let's optimistically say
  >> we have a Python 2.1 release nine months after a 2.0 release.
  >> That means that every new Python during that time will try to use
  >> the builtin XML libraries and have problems.

  PP> What problems are you referring to? The fourthought guys just
  PP> went through a pretty thorough review of minidom and found only
  PP> a few minor bugs. In the modules and libraries sections of
  PP> sourceforge's bug tracker I see only one listed bug. Expat has
  PP> hardly changed from the expat that people have been using
  PP> productively for years. I don't know of PyExpat bugs.

Have you read the rest of this thread?  Look at the post by Lars, the
second message in the thread.  He explains that the SAX2 doesn't
really work, after a problem report by a user.

Jeremy