[XML-SIG] Python 1.6 and XML

Robin Becker robin@jessikat.demon.co.uk
Mon, 17 Apr 2000 20:10:50 +0100


In article <14587.6818.355329.861002@seahag.cnri.reston.va.us>, Fred L.
Drake, Jr. <fdrake@acm.org> writes
>
>Robin Becker writes:
> > so will the xmllib.py in lib be the new one or remain as it is in 1.5.2?
>
>  The "standard" xmllib from 1.5.2 will remain; the one in PyXML is
>known to be out of date (and should be removed from CVS).
>
>
>  -Fred
>
>--
>Fred L. Drake, Jr.       <fdrake at acm.org>
>Corporation for National Research Initiatives
>
>
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I'm confused now. PyXML's xmllib doesn't do anything about ']'
characters in open text whereas the Python 1.5.2 xmllib does. I'm not
clever enough to know which one is correct, but I don't see that

<dingo>text [stuff] more text</dingo>

should pay special attention to [stuff] or am I out of date. 
-- 
Robin Becker