Fredrik Lundh writes:
I thought MvL had already volunteered to do this?
I didn't state this was a huge issue or that it didn't have a nice solution. ;-) It also isn't something that happens all that often, given that I don't have a lot of time to make Expat releases.
cannot fix bugs if nobody bothers to report them ;-)
(the crash issue appears to be a rumour; there was a bug when running in SGML mode, but that was fixed long ago. people using the current release in real-life applications haven't reported any stability problems...)
Glad to hear this! Perhaps someone (not implying you) should start writing a substantial test suite for it to ferret out any remaining bugs? I don't see a test_sgmlop.py in the PyXML package; if you already have something perhaps you could contribute it? It might help you unload maintenance if anyone does manage to find a bug.
on the other hand, sgmlop itself will never be anything but a "fast but sloppy" XML tokenizer. if you risk running into xml compliance nazis <0.1 wink>, you shouldn't use it.
"Nazi" would not have been my word for it, but ... Wham! ;-) -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> PythonLabs at Zope Corporation