[Python-Dev] ElementTree in stdlib

[Michael Chermside]

I 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.

Martin v. Löwis objected:
 > That's not true. The current xml package *is* the consensus of
 > xml-sig.

Fred Drake clarifies
> It pretty much was at the time, at any rate.  It's not clear to me that the
> xml package shipped in 2.4 and several preceeding versions of Python would
> pass muster in the current XML-SIG.

Yes, I'm sorry about not being clearer, and thanks for correcting me. It
was the more recent work in XML which I was thinking of.

-- Michael Chermside