I want to build a simple validator for rss2 feeds, that checks basic structure and reports channels , items , and their attributes etc.
I have been reading Mark Pilgrims articles on xml.com, diveintopython and someother stuff on sgmllib, sax.handlers and content handlers, xml.dom.minidom why is all of this necessary, what is the difference between all these libraries, it seems to me that I can parse the rss2 feed with any of these libraries.!! ? what is the difference between namespaces and non-namspaces functions in sax.handlers.contenthandler , is the namespace defined like domain names on some website? thanks for any comments -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
