[XML-SIG] gray areas in Python SAX API

Thomas B. Passin tpassin@home.com
Mon, 19 Nov 2001 00:59:32 -0500


[Martin v. Loewis]

> > Do we really want it to be false?  I think the most important
> > question is the likely shape of most applications to be used by
> > newbies.
>
> The question is whether you have to implement startElemeent or
> startElementNS. I guess newbies would rather expect startElement,
> especially when the come from Java.
>

Yes, I think so, since starting with toy xml documents without namespaces is
what one would normally start out with.  You would experiment and get that
working right, then graduate to startElementNS(), etc.

Cheers,

Tom P