[XML-SIG] Re: Version number question on PyXML 0.6.4

[Martin v. Loewis]

> On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 03:22:34PM +0100, Martin von Loewis wrote:
> >If the major components have no well-known and problematic
> >deficiencies left, I'll call it 1.0. A well-known deficiency are the
> >Unicode problems, for example.
> 
> What problem is that?  Is it that if a parser outputs regular strings,
> you don't know what encoding they're in?

Mainly that, yes. Plus, you cannot tell what kind of string you'll
get, except by trying.

> Regarding version numbers: the PyXML code base is certainly
> full-featured enough that it could certainly be called 1.0.  We'd want
> to work on bringing the docs back up to date, though; I'm planning to
> revise the XML HOWTO next week (after I get the QEL release out).

Actually, the reference is much more outdated than the
howto. Everything in the reference is probably outdated; everything
not documented in the Python library documentation is probably
undocumented (with the exception of aspects of 4DOM).

Regards,
Martin