[XML-SIG] Expat 1.95.4 revisited

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Fred L. Drake, Jr. writes:
 > 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.

The release has been out a week and a half, and there have been no
real complaints regarding the code.  I think we can consider 1.95.4
fairly stable.  ;-)

 > 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 has been done.

 >   - update the DOM construction code, at least for the new minidom
 >     builder, to use this to get namespace prefixes right, and

This has been done.

 >   - integrate Expat 1.95.4 into PyXML.

This too has been done.

 > 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.

I think I'm set for PyXML 0.8.  I still need to look over the bug
reports to see if there's anything that I can deal with easily.

Does anyone else have any to-dos for 0.8?


  -Fred

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