[XML-SIG] Ugh! Why are DOM access methods spelled with a leading '_'?

[Martijn Faassen]

Hi folks,

Sorry for the late followup, but since I'm interested in DOM in Zope,
and am implementing a DOM (on top of MetaKit) as well, I think I can jump in.

tpassin@home.com wrote:
[snip]
> > > Are you proposing all access through functions?
> > Yes.
> 
> I second this.

All access through functions would be nice for me too. Dealing with
attributes in the implementation is a major pain. I always wondered
why 4DOM took the attribute approach when doing my implementation.

The caching attributes argument in my case does not at all apply;
all data is in fact stored in MetaKit tables; the Python DOM objects come
and go. I also avoid circular references this way.

Regards,

Martijn