On 2008-02-20 21:20, Brett Cannon wrote:
On Feb 20, 2008 9:40 AM, Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> wrote:
On Feb 20, 2008, at 5:59 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
-1. SGML is a much more general markup language than HTML. Certainly. sgmllib doesn't handle the general case, and is unlikely to be reasonably extensible to support a substantial subset of SGML.
This is why I suggested moving it. Since the docs for sgmllib explicitly state it does not provide full support for SGML as-is I figured it should just get shifted. Heck, it might be a prime candidate for API removal since it is not a complete implementation.
Ok, remove my -1 :-)
It's true that only htmllib does use sgmllib in the std lib, but there are applications out there that rely on sgmllib for the SGML part, e.g. ones implementing the DocBook tool chain. I'd strongly encourage anyone who wants to use Python for general SGML parsing to either fork sgmllib (with a new name) and give it a real go, or integrate an existing SGML parser. Pretending that sgmllib is really a usable SGML parser doesn't seem like a good idea. It's also not widely enough used that it makes sense to have such a beast in the standard library.
I am definitely adding sgmllib to the list of possible module to remove, but that is a separate email for another day. =)
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