Chas Emerick wrote: > The principle and the practice diverge significantly in our neck of > the woods. The current project involves consuming and making sense > of extraordinarily (and typically unnecessarily) complex XHTML.
wasn't your original complaint that ET didn't do the "right thing" when you removed elements from a mixed-content tree? (something than can be trivially handled with a 2-line helper function) why mutate the tree if all you want is to extract information from it? doesn't sound very efficient to me... </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list