[Python-Dev] ElementTree in stdlib

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    Martin> It's difficult to establish precise numbers, but I would expect
    Martin> that most readers of xml-sig are well aware of how DOM and SAX
    Martin> work, perhaps even better than ElementTree.

Perhaps the corollary is that people who are not xml-sig readers will likely
be put off by DOM and SAX.  I couldn't tell you what they do, just that they
were Too Hard (tm) for me to bother with XML in most situations.  Then
ElementTree came along.

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