[XML-SIG] Equality tests on DOM nodes

[Fred L. Drake]

Andrew M. Kuchling writes:
 > 	* If the two nodes have identical type and value, should the
 > comparison be recursive, comparing the children of the nodes.  The ==
 > operator would then be comparing entire subtrees rooted at node1 and
 > node2.  I'm not certain if this is the best choice for the meaning of
 > ==, but see no clear reason to choose recursive vs. non-recursive ==.
 > Any suggestions?


  Since I'm the one who raised this with Andrew, I'll mention that my
first reaction was that it would be recursive.  I don't see any clear
indication that "shallow" equality has any real meaning.
  This corresponds to the basic notion of equality testing in Python.


  -Fred

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