Problem with Elementtree and XMLSchem instance type

Sun Aug 1 20:43:33 EDT 2010

In message
<96e47fd8-c939-48a2-9a2b-92afa720c8ac at k1g2000prl.googlegroups.com>, Carl 
Banks wrote:

> My general feeling is that ElementTree is a lot handier for reading
> and writing your own XML formats, than for handling XML files produced
> by other tools.

Why is that? I’ve successfully used it to parse SVG files produced by 
Inkscape <http://github.com/ldo/dvd_menu_animator>.