On 11:03 am, screwt...@froup.com wrote: >On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 08:26:43AM +0100, Gabriel Rossetti wrote: >>Ok, thank you. Just a question, would it be interesting to anyone to >>be able to choose in between the internal XPATH implementation and an >>external lib/implementation for the XMPP stuff? I have often wondered >>if it would not be better to allow the user to choose. > >I seem to recall that the last time people discussed reusing a generic >XML >library rather than a custom one, it was discovered that XMPP isn't >quite actually XML - it has a bunch of crazy restrictions that >basically >mean you need an XMPP-specific library. If there's a third-part XMPP >library that could be plugged in, that would be a very interesting >thing >to know.
The discussion is mostly summarized here: http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/3201 I hope that eventually someone will find a good XML library which has the the features described there, and then we can switch to it. Jean-Paul _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
