lxml/ElementTree and .tail

[Fredrik Lundh]

Uche Ogbuji wrote:

> The fact that the XML Infoset is hardly used outside W3C XML Schema,
> and that the XPath data model is far more common,

and for the bystanders, it should be noted that the Infoset is pretty 
much the same thing as the XPath data model; it's mostly just that the 
specifications use different names for the same concept.  if you cut 
through the vocabulary, it's all about a tree of elements, plus text and 
attributes and a few more (but usually less interesting) things.  it's a 
bit like arguing that

     class Person(object):
         __slots__ = ["name"]
         def __init__(self, name):
             self.name = name

and

     class Employee:
         def __init__(self, first_name, last_name):
             self.full_name = first_name + " " + last_name

and

     employee_name = "..."

are entirely different things, and not just three more or less con- 
venient ways to store exactly the same information.

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