[Python-Dev] ElementTree in stdlib

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Michael Chermside wrote:
> Frankly, if at any time in the past several years the XML-SIG had
> published their consensus report on the "preferred API for XML"
> (or perhaps "preferred small set of APIs, each tuned for a specific
> purpose"), I expect it would have been incorporated in the core.
> This could have been done long before /F ever wrote ElementTree.
> But historically, this isn't what happened.

That's not true. The current xml package *is* the consensus of
xml-sig.

Regards,
Martin