[XML-SIG] Metadata in XBEL

[James Tauber]

> Oh come now.  Fred and I are both DOM implementors who have 
> expressed strong 
> discontent with the DOM.  I'm all for a better tree API.
> 
> However, I'd like one, but *not* based on JDOM, but rather 
> 100% Pythonic.  I 
> think to do otherwise is to risk continuing the performance and 
> resource-hogging properties of straightforward DOM ports.

Agreed. JDOM came about because DOM's language neutrality led to
inefficiencies for particular languages. JDOM attempted to take advantage of
the specifics of Java. A tree API should take advantage of the specifics of
Python.

James