[Python-Dev] Fixing the XML batteries

[Matt Joiner]

I second this. The doco is very bad.
On Dec 10, 2011 6:34 AM, "Bill Janssen" <janssen at parc.com> wrote:

> Xavier Morel <python-dev at masklinn.net> wrote:
>
> > On 2011-12-09, at 19:15 , Bill Janssen wrote:
> > > I use ElementTree for parsing valid XML, but minidom for producing it.
> > Could you expand on your reasons to use minidom for producing XML?
>
> Inertia, I guess.  I tried that first, and it seems to work.
>
> I tend to use html5lib and/or BeautifulSoup instead of ElementTree, and
> that's mainly because I find the documentation for ElementTree is
> confusing and partial and inconsistent.  Having various undated but
> obsolete tutorials and documentation still up on effbot.org doesn't
> help.
>
>
> Bill
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