[Twisted-Python] regarding xml elements

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:51:10 -0400, Phil Christensen <phil at bubblehouse.org> wrote:
>
>On Mar 28, 2008, at 10:45 AM, Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
>>On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:32:44 -0400, Phil Christensen <phil at bubblehouse.org 
>> > wrote:
>>>On Mar 28, 2008, at 7:44 AM, Raj kumar wrote:
>>>>Hi,
>>>>I have an xml file in my application,
>>>>I have created an element using
>>>>Example goes like this.........
>>>>
>>>>document.createElement("abc")
>>>It sounds like you're working with t.w.microdom.
>>
>>If so, stop.
>>
>>Don't use twisted.web.microdom.  There are plenty of better XML  libraries
>>for Python.
>
>What's wrong with it? It's got a familiar API, and it's easier to work  with 
>than the built-in expat parser. If you've already got a  dependency on 
>Twisted, it seems like a good choice unless you need a  high level of 
>performance.

It's full of bugs that we probably won't fix, even if you tell us about
them.

>If it's so bad that you'd tell someone not to use it, why isn't it 
>deprecated?

Because it would take a lot of work to deprecate, and there are a lot of
other things people are working on that are deemed more important.

Jean-Paul