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

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake@acm.org
Mon, 1 Oct 2001 11:23:59 -0400

Fredrik Lundh writes:

I thought MvL had already volunteered to do this?

I didn't state this was a huge issue or that it didn't have a nice solution. ;-) It also isn't something that happens all that often, given that I don't have a lot of time to make Expat releases.

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...)

Glad to hear this! Perhaps someone (not implying you) should start writing a substantial test suite for it to ferret out any remaining bugs? I don't see a test_sgmlop.py in the PyXML package; if you already have something perhaps you could contribute it? It might help you unload maintenance if anyone does manage to find a bug.

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.

"Nazi" would not have been my word for it, but ... Wham! ;-)

-Fred

-- Fred L. Drake, Jr. PythonLabs at Zope Corporation