[XML-SIG] Expat 1.95.4

[Uche Ogbuji]

> 
> I'm planning to release Expat 1.95.4 tomorrow.  This promises to be a
> stable release that fixes a lot of minor bugs and includes more
> platform support.
> 
> What I'd like to do is:
> 
>   - modify pyexpat.c to support Expat's recent ability to return
>     namespace prefixes as well as namespace URIs (useful for DOM
>     construction),

This will be great for cDomlette as well.

>   - update the DOM construction code, at least for the new minidom
>     builder, to use this to get namespace prefixes right, and
> 
>   - integrate Expat 1.95.4 into PyXML.
> 
> Once this is done, I'd like to see another release of PyXML go out so
> that these new features get broader testing.  I don't know what
> version number this release should carry.
> 
> Any objections, comments, or suggestions?

Your plans for PyXML sound fine.

Perhaps in the process you'll end up solving this problem I have with expat 
1.95*:

I tried to upgrade cDomlette to use expat 1.95.2, but because this now uses 
autoconf, its hard for us to create a siloed version that we can ship with 
4Suite.  For this reasom we still use expat 1.2 for cDomlette.

I don't suppose anyone has solved the problem of having a ready cross-platform 
code-base for expat?  That would probably mean replacing the configuration 
params with platform #ifdefs.  This would make it much easier for us to 
upgrade and get the most recent improvements.


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