[Python-Dev] Integrating Expat (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik@pythonware.com
Mon, 1 Oct 2001 17:23:56 +0200

I have mixed feelings. There are really two things that we could do: We could add Expat to our CVS repository, which means syncing a bunch of files everytime a new Expat release comes out

I thought MvL had already volunteered to do this?

> There are other candidates which would fit this role just > as well (in particular, Fredrik's sgmlop looks like a nice > extension since it not only works with XML but also many > other meta languages).

See Martin's comments about this. I think this precludes inclusion of sgmlop until the problems it has have been addressed in the implementation.

cannot fix bugs if nobody bothers to report them ;-)

(the crash issue appears to be a rumour; there was a bug when running in SGML mode, but that was fixed long ago. people using the current release in real-life applications haven't reported any stability problems...)

on the other hand, sgmlop itself will never be anything but a "fast but sloppy" XML tokenizer. if you risk running into xml compliance nazis <0.1 wink>, you shouldn't use it.