[4suite] Re: [XML-SIG] pDomlette and 4Suite 0.12

Mike Olson Mike.Olson@fourthought.com
Thu, 15 Nov 2001 10:25:14 -0700


"Fred L. Drake, Jr." wrote:
> 
> Alexandre Fayolle writes:
>  >  * there's been some talks about a possible merge between pDomlette and
>  > minidom. Mike Olson seems to be keen on this one, I fail to remember
>  > anyone from PyXML being enthusiastic (please correct me if I'm wrong).
> 
>   Speaking strictly for myself, I'm currently neutral about any merger
> of minidom and pDomlette.  I've not looked into the pDomlette code.
> I'd like to see minidom be a better DOM than it it, but it's current
> light weight is a valuable feature.  I don't know how a merge with
> pDomlette would affect it.

Very little.  If I recall, there are about 4-5 features minidom is
missing.  I think the biggest one is support for comments (but I might
be remembering wrong).


Mike

> 
>   -Fred
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