[XML-SIG] Is this a bug?

[Konrad Hinsen]

> Konrad Hinsen writes:
>  > I'd happily do it correctly if I knew how! The XML manual doesn't
>  > mention this, or at least not in any obvious place.
> 
>   What manual were you looking at?

The Python 2.1 library reference, section 13.5. In 13.5.2.6,
getAttribute() and getAttributeNS() look like perfectly equivalent
alternatives, no mention of any parser parameters. And I wouldn't even
know where to look for a description of the parser options, there are
so many different parsers and options and interfaces, and the one I
use isn't in there anyway.

Not that I want to criticize the work of the XML-SIG, it's a
tremendous piece of work. But the current state of the documentation
is the most chaotic stuff I have seen in the Python universe. A
special award goes to the "Package summary" in the PyXML
documentation, it makes learning Perl seem like an attractive
alternative.

Konrad.
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