>> ElementTree on the other hand provides incredibly easy access to XML >> elements and works in a more Pythonic way. Why has the API not been >> included in the Python core?
Magnus> I'd really like to see that too. Sure, it's fairly trivial to Magnus> install it, but each different package that needs to be Magnus> installed from another source, built and tested on multiple Magnus> platforms etc, means more work. More work than reimplementing the functionality or living with a miserable API (I'm thinking normal DOM APIs)? Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list