[XML-SIG] pyxml0.8.3/minidom/getElementById still broken???

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake at acm.org
Wed Oct 15 09:57:03 EDT 2003


Andrew Clover writes:
 > If the IDness of the attribute concerned is declared in the external subset,
 > minidom won't use that as it's a non-validating, non-external-entity-reading
 > DOM implementation.

That, theoretically, can be controlled using the DOM 3 Load & Save
interface, though do so isn't as well tested as it should be.  That
will change as the spec for that approaches Recommendation status.


  -Fred

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