[Python-Dev] minidom and DOM level 2 (original) (raw)

Andrew Clover and-dev at doxdesk.com
Sat Apr 7 17:02:13 CEST 2007

Jason Orendorff wrote:

OK, I think this is worthwhile then. :) I'll read the spec and submit a patch.

You're planning to implement EntityReference in minidom? That'll be fun! :-) One of the nastier corners of DOM and XML in general.

I'd be happy to do some diffing between the implementation, documentation, tests, and the Recommendation

I hacked up an experimental test harness for the W3 DOM Test Suite in order to test my own imp; you might find it useful:

http://doxdesk.com/software/py/domts.html

The TS is far from definitive, but its tests for Level 1 and 2 are to the best of my knowledge accurate.

Incidentally minidom falls far short of passing even Level 1 Core for more reasons than omission of EntityReference. I noted the main known problems with it here:

http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/topics/compliance.html

Good luck!

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