[XML-SIG] Developer's Day

[Andrew M. Kuchling]

Paul Prescod writes:
>I think that we need to make an "XML Developer's Package" with minimal
>overlap and few advanced features. Our current offering is overwhelming
>in its array of sometimes incompatible and overlapping offerings. That's

Huh?  There's obviously a good deal of stuff in there, some of it
perhaps too esoteric, but I don't see where there's overlap.  Or are
you talking about Python tools in general, where there are 3 DOM
implementations?  (PyDOM, 4DOM, and ZDOM hiding inside Zope.)

>fine for a generalized distribution but we need to develop something
>clean enough to go in the Python 1.6 standard library and the assortment
>of stuff we have now is NOT it.

I lean against shoveling more stuff into 1.6; better to get the
Distutils widely used, which makes it easier to install *all* Python
extensions.  

>Ideally we would have one (or at most two!) implementation of each of
>the major specs:
>XML    >SAX   >Unicode    >XPath    >XPointer   >XSLT    >DOM

Do you mean "one implementation of each in a single package", or "one
implementation existing for Python, distributed separately"?

We need to come up with a position paper for developer's day, stating
what needs to be discussed.  Suggestions?  I'd propose focusing on
getting the XML-SIG package to 1.0, but that's just an idea.

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