[Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src/Misc NEWS,1.126,1.127

[Martin v. L?wis]

Update of /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc
In directory usw-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv28271

Modified Files:
	NEWS 
Log Message:
Document XML changes.


Index: NEWS
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RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc/NEWS,v
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*** NEWS	2001/02/22 15:53:21	1.126
--- NEWS	2001/02/27 04:21:58	1.127
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*** 6,9 ****
--- 6,25 ----
  Standard library
  
+ - pyexpat now detects the expat version if expat.h defines it. A
+   number of additional handlers are provided, which are only available
+   since expat 1.95. In addition, the methods SetParamEntityParsing and
+   GetInputContext of Parser objects are available with 1.95.x
+   only. Parser objects now provide the ordered_attributes and
+   specified_attributes attributes. A new module expat.model was added,
+   which offers a number of additional constants if 1.95.x is used.
+ 
+ - xml.dom offers the new functions registerDOMImplementation and
+   getDOMImplementation.
+ 
+ - xml.dom.minidom offers a toprettyxml method. A number of DOM
+   conformance issues have been resolved. In particular, Element now
+   has an hasAttributes method, and the handling of namespaces was
+   improved.
+ 
  Windows changes
  
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*** 123,126 ****
--- 139,148 ----
  - Removed the obsolete soundex module.
  
+ - xml.dom.minidom now uses the standard DOM exceptions. Node supports
+   the isSameNode method; NamedNodeMap the get method.
+ 
+ - xml.sax.expatreader supports the lexical handler property; it
+   generates comment, startCDATA, and endCDATA events.
+ 
  Windows changes
  
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*** 374,377 ****
--- 396,419 ----
    the caller.  This is intended only as a building block for
    higher-level mechanisms such as string interpolation.
+ 
+ - The pyexpat module supports a number of new handlers, which are
+   available only in expat 1.2. If invocation of a callback fails, it
+   will report an additional frame in the traceback. Parser objects
+   participate now in garbage collection. If expat reports an unknown
+   encoding, pyexpat will try to use a Python codec; that works only
+   for single-byte charsets. The parser type objects is exposed as
+   XMLParserObject.
+ 
+ - xml.dom now offers standard definitions for symbolic node type and
+   exception code constants, and a hierarchy of DOM exceptions. minidom
+   was adjusted to use them.
+ 
+ - The conformance of xml.dom.minidom to the DOM specification was
+   improved. It detects a number of additional error cases; the
+   previous/next relationship works even when the tree is modified;
+   Node supports the normalize() method; NamedNodeMap, DocumentType and
+   DOMImplementation classes were added; Element supports the
+   hasAttribute and hasAttributeNS methods; and Text supports the splitText
+   method.
  
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