Uche Ogbuji wrote: > The fact that the XML Infoset is hardly used outside W3C XML Schema, > and that the XPath data model is far more common, and that focus on > the serialization is even more common than that is a matter of > everyday practicality.
everyday interoperability problems, that is. yesterday, someone reported a bug in Python's xml.dom because he couldn't get it to serialize the string " " as " ". earlier today, someone asked how to work around an XML parser that didn't understand namespace prefixes. > And oh by the way, this thread is all about *your* customer's > complaining. from what I can tell, it was *your* customer posting FUD about a different library, not my customer asking for help with a specific problem. this is free software; people who use a piece of software count a *lot* more than people who don't want to use it. > This is not one fo those times, so this is probably where I get off. I'll be looking forward to your next O'Reilly article. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
