[XML-SIG] SAX parser factories (Was: PyTRaX?)

[Mike Olson]

"Martin v. Loewis" wrote:
> 
> > Good point. There does need to be something along the lines of the
> > make_parser function in SAX.
> 
> My proposal would be to add two keyword arguments, properties= and
> features=. Each is a list of binary tuples, each tuple has name and
> value. Alternatively, dictionaries might be better.
> 
> make_parser will the iterate over all known parser factories, invoking
> create_parser for each, then trying to set all the properties and
> features. It will return the first parser that supports all of them,
> and return a configured instance.
> 
> There should also be a function xml.sax.register_parser, which accepts
> an object that has a create_parser function, or a string naming a
> module that has a create_parser function.
> 
> What do you think?


Can you still specify a parser to avoid the iteration?  What about
setting a default?

Mike
> 
> Regards,
> Martin
> 
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