Bob Kline wrote:
>  Bob Kline wrote:
> > We've stumbled on a bug which causes spurious warning messages when 
> > validating against a certain DTD.  This uses a package which isn't 
> > distributed with Active Python, so my first inclination was to file a 
> > bug with the maintainers of the PyXML package (a.k.a. python-xml).  It 
> > turned out that there were two problems with this approach.  The first 
> > is that this package is no longer maintained.  The second problem is 
> > that the bug doesn't actually seem to be in the package itself.  The 
> > first clue in this direction was that when I ran the repro case on an 
> > Ubuntu Linux workstation, the incorrect warning messages did not 
> > appear.  So I pulled down the Ubuntu source package for python-xml and 
> > used it to install the package into my Active Python, and the problem is 
> > still present.  This has been reproduced with multiple Windows operating 
> > systems, and multiple versions of Active Python (incuding the same 
> > version which is running on the Linux workstation without the buggy 
> > behavior).  So it seems that there is some difference between Active 
> > Python's interpreter and libraries and the interpreter and libraries on 
> > Linux which cause the bug to appear in the former but not the latter.  
> > Should I file a bug report and post my repro case?
> >
> >   
>  
>  Further digging appears to indicate that while the bug is unique to 
>  Windows, it is not unique to ActiveState's distribution of Python.  I 
>  did a fresh install of python.org's Windows build, and the bug is still 
>  present.  So the likeliest explanation is a bug in the underlying 
>  Microsoft libraries (something we've been bitten by on previous occasions).

Perhaps a bug in core Python's bug database would be useful. I don't 
know enough about the bug to know though.

   http://bugs.python.org/


>  I have also learned (since posting the original message in this thread) 
>  that although the Python XML SIG still describes PyXML as the premier 
>  path to full XML support in Python on the SIG's home page [1]

That is unfortunate.

 >  , this
>  information is out of date, and lxml is now the preferred package for 
>  full-strength XML programming in Python.
>  
>  Are there any plans for including this package with the ActiveState 
>  distribution at some point in the future?

Could you add a feature request for that:
http://bugs.activestate.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=ActivePython

I'm not sure when I'd be able to add it, but it is definitely a 
worthwhile module. Note that xml.etree is quite handy for XML processing 
-- but obviously not for things like validation, etc. that lxml provides.


Trent

-- 
Trent Mick
trentm at activestate.com
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