[XML-SIG] Writing DOM-neutral code

[Mike Olson]

On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 15:35, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
> > If I have an element, e, then
> > 	Using pyxml (4dom) dom, e.attributes is a list
> 
> No, it is not. It is an NamedNodeMap, just as specified in
> 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/core.html#ID-1780488922
> 
> It is also a NamedNodeMap in minidom. So formally, you ought to use
> .length and .item(index) (all other accessors are DOM level 2).

cDomlette won't support these though.  I guess I could add them in if
people want.  It does however support the dictionary interface.  This is
what I recomment to use.

Mike

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