Paul Prescod: add Expat to 1.6
Paul Prescod sent the following note to the XML-SIG mailing list. Thoughts? --amk
Paul Prescod sent the following note to the XML-SIG mailing list. Thoughts?
I don't know any of the acronyms, and I'm busy writing a funding proposal plus two talks for the Monterey conference, so I don't have any thoughts to spare at the moment. Perhaps someone could present the case with some more background info? (It does sounds intriguing, but then again I'm not sure how many people *really* need to parse XML -- it doesn't strike me as something of the same generality as regular expressions yet.) --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
Guido van Rossum writes:
any thoughts to spare at the moment. Perhaps someone could present the case with some more background info? (It does sounds intriguing,
Paul is probably suggesting this so that Python comes with a fast, standardized XML parser out of the box. On the other hand, where do you draw the line? Paul suggests including PyExpat and easySAX (a small SAX implementation), but why not full SAX, and why not DOM? My personal leaning is that we can get more bang for the buck by working on the Distutils effort, so that installing a package like PyExpat becomes much easier, rather than piling more things into the core distribution. -- A.M. Kuchling http://starship.python.net/crew/amk/ The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. -- Anatole France
Andrew> My personal leaning is that we can get more bang for the buck by Andrew> working on the Distutils effort, so that installing a package Andrew> like PyExpat becomes much easier, rather than piling more things Andrew> into the core distribution. Amen to that. See Guido's note and my response regarding soundex in the Doc-SIG. Perhaps you could get away with a very small core distribution that only contained the stuff necessary to pull everything else from the net via http or ftp... Skip
"Andrew M. Kuchling" wrote:
Paul Prescod sent the following note to the XML-SIG mailing list. Thoughts?
When I brought up some ideas for adding a separate validation mechanism for PyExpat, some folks suggested that I should look at some other C libraries, including one from the ILU folks and some other one that I can't remember the name of off hand. Should we (used loosely ;) look into the other libraries before including expat in the Python dist? Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:jim@digicool.com Python Powered! Technical Director (888) 344-4332 http://www.python.org Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com http://www.zope.org Under US Code Title 47, Sec.227(b)(1)(C), Sec.227(a)(2)(B) This email address may not be added to any commercial mail list with out my permission. Violation of my privacy with advertising or SPAM will result in a suit for a MINIMUM of $500 damages/incident, $1500 for repeats.
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