[stdlib-sig] html package idea

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 2008-02-20 21:20, Brett Cannon wrote:
> On Feb 20, 2008 9:40 AM, Fred Drake <fdrake at acm.org> wrote:
>> On Feb 20, 2008, at 5:59 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>>> -1. SGML is a much more general markup language than HTML.
>> Certainly.  sgmllib doesn't handle the general case, and is unlikely
>> to be reasonably extensible to support a substantial subset of SGML.
>>
> 
> This is why I suggested moving it. Since the docs for sgmllib
> explicitly state it does not provide full support for SGML as-is I
> figured it should just get shifted. Heck, it might be a prime
> candidate for API removal since it is not a complete implementation.

Ok, remove my -1 :-)

>>> It's true that only htmllib does use sgmllib in the std lib,
>>> but there are applications out there that rely on sgmllib
>>> for the SGML part, e.g. ones implementing the DocBook tool
>>> chain.
>> I'd strongly encourage anyone who wants to use Python for general SGML
>> parsing to either fork sgmllib (with a new name) and give it a real
>> go, or integrate an existing SGML parser.  Pretending that sgmllib is
>> really a usable SGML parser doesn't seem like a good idea.  It's also
>> not widely enough used that it makes sense to have such a beast in the
>> standard library.
> 
> I am definitely adding sgmllib to the list of possible module to
> remove, but that is a separate email for another day. =)

Are there any wrappers for OpenJade and OpenSP out there ?

http://openjade.sourceforge.net/

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