[XML-SIG] minidom changes

Mike Olson Mike.Olson@fourthought.com
26 Jul 2002 11:46:16 -0600


On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 21:37, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
> 
> 
> I agree.  The DOM is definately a factory-centric API.

I've fixed the test file to create the element correctly and checked in.

> 
>  > However, I think we say it is OK to do xml.dom.minidom.Element('e')
>  > inwhich case we could have a lot of nodes without owner documents and a
>  > lot of people will get these errors.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean.  I certainly don't know of any
> documentation that indicates that's a way to do it.  I'm less
> concerned about maintaining undocumented behavior than Martin.
> 
Maybe its not documented.  I also think I'm out of date.  I know we had
a lot of code that just created Elements but having moved to cDomlette I
think we removed most of that.  So never mind :)

Mike

> 
>   -Fred
> 
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> Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fdrake at acm.org>
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