[XML-SIG] WXS type library: guidance needed

[Eric van der Vlist]

On Sun, 2002-09-15 at 18:25, Mike Olson wrote:
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> I've wanted to do this for a while now so I'm game.  Though, I'm not
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Great!

> Do you envision this living in xml-sig or another python package?

If xml-sig is interested by the project I think that, yes, it would make
sense develop a type library there --even though it could be considered
as more generic than XML...

Eric

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