[XML-SIG] minidom enhancements

[Uche Ogbuji]

> 
> I've just merged the changes to minidom into the trunk; this should
> buy us a little performance.

And cause some problems  ;-)

It looks as if the class CharacterData no longer has an __init__.  Nor do the 
classes that derive from it.  This means that the usage

Text("spam")
Comment("eggs")

Now blows up.

Which, I think is bad.  We construct nodes that way in 4Suite's minidom 
wrapper, and I can modify the cases, but I dislike the change.  I think it 
removes a very useful and Pythonic paradigm.  Also, who knows how much code it 
would break?  I know we've been guilty of changing APIs in 4Suite.  I guess 
I'm reaping my whirlwind  :-)

Is there a good reason for this, though?

Should we expect any more API surprises  ;-)


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