Re: [Docutils-develop] two patches

[Paul T. <pau...@gm...>]

On 10/30/11 10:41 AM, Aahz wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 29, 2011, Paul Tremblay wrote:
>> I've written two patches. One is for utils.py. It includes two new
>> classes and two new functions.
>>
>> The classes are needed to make the SAX parser work and should not be
>> invoked directly.
> Why are you using SAX?  Instead you probably want
> xml.etree.ElementTree.iterparse()
etree is not compatible with Python 2.3. SAX is robust, standard, and 
fast for this task. The most complex part of the code involves handling 
namespaces. By using SAX, I can control the formatting of the 
namespaces. For example, I can allow for a default namespace so that the 
namespace isn't written for each element, making the XML easier to read.

Paul