[XML-SIG] Two bugs in catalog parsing

Maarten ter Huurne maarten.ter.huurne at philips.com
Mon Aug 13 18:29:56 CEST 2007


Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> wrote on 2007-08-11 10:37:36 AM:

> PyXML hasn't been actively maintained since the last release a few years
ago,
> so you'd be very lucky if someone comes up with a new release that fixes
this.

Thanks for the warning.

> If you need that feature, feel free to check if lxml handles this
asexpected.
> It's based on libxml2, so it should follow the standard. It's also much
easier
> to use than PyXML.
>
> http://codespeak.net/lxml/

I am now switching to lxml and besides the fact that it is maintained,
there is another advantage for me: lxml reports all validation problems in
an error log, while PyXML would only report the first validation problem by
raising an exception.

Thanks!

Bye,
            Maarten
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