Paul Prescod writes: > I note that minidom will not always give you an exception for a poorly > formed tree. That means that the programmer may not find her error until > the XML is "out of Python's hands." It should give an exception sooner > or later but not never. I'd like to mention again that there's also a matter of compliance with the specification. The DOM level 1 recommendation includes specific documentation about the exceptions that are raised in certain conditions. Perhaps we should "map" these to more Pythonic exceptions, and perhaps not, but I think the exceptions should be raised when the API specification says they will be. This is an important aspect of compliance, and the XML community has demonstrated substantially more interest in standards compliance than the HTML community ever did; we should reap the benefits and not end up having Python discarded because the standard implementation isn't compliant. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> PythonLabs at Digital Creations
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