[XML-SIG] Specializing DOM exceptions

[uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com]

> I said:
>  >   I'd also like to see the .nodeType values defined this way, and
>  >   shared by the implementations.
> 
> and Martin responded:
>  > It's more difficult with those, since the spec says they are defined
>  > inside of the Node interface. We could deviate from the DOM spec in
> 
>   Perhaps we should provide a Node class in xml.dom that defines just
> those values, and implementations can inherit that or duplicate the
> values in their own Node implementation.  Nothing other than the
> enumeration values should be defined in xml.dom.Node (except maybe a
> docstring).

Well, this would interfere pretty badly with 4DOM.  There is an 
xml.dom.Node.py file in 4DOM and having a Node class in the __init__ would 
cause problems with the import.

What's wrong with

from xml.dom.Node import Node

n.nodeType == Node.ELEMENT_NODE


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