[XML-SIG] Minidom bugs/questions

Paul Prescod paulp@ActiveState.com
Wed, 07 Feb 2001 18:00:48 -0800


"Martin v. Loewis" wrote:
> 
> > First, would implementing DOM core include entities, notations, document
> > types, entity references etc.? If so, I think you're increasing the
> > conceptual load quite a bit.
> 
> I think it should include anything that users want to use. Refusing
> patches because they extend beyond an originally-set feature set is
> not good.

Guido does that all of the time. It's part of how we keep things simple!
Every extra feature must be added to the documentation and increases
people's XML-a-phobia by that much more.

 Paul Prescod