- From: Fred L. Drake <fdrake@cnri.reston.va.us>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 13:17:32 -0500 (EST)
- To: Ray Whitmer <ray@imall.com>
- Cc: www-dom@w3.org, xml-sig@python.org
Ray Whitmer writes: > The problem in Python is much bigger -- possibly rendering my advice > irrelevant -- since no official DOM API binding has been released for that The spec does include IDL, and a Python binding for IDL is being developed. (Now, I've not checked that the Python DOM uses the Python IDL binding. Andrew, perhaps you can address this in the Python XML-SIG?) > I don't know Python, so it is also possible that Python may impose more > rigidity on the requirements of == (than Java does on equals), making it > possible to know what the standard implementation should be, but your > raising the question would seem to indicate that it does not. A couple of issues seem appearant to me, but depth is not one of them. First, the current implementation of Python's comparison semantics require complete ordering, which doesn't make sense in this case. That can be ignored for now if the documentation states that only equality/inequality is supported. Future versions of Python are expected to correct this problem. Second, the concerns Paul Butkiewicz raised about the relevance of context need to be addressed. Basic equality may have to be interpreted as node identity. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake@acm.org> Corporation for National Research Initiatives 1895 Preston White Dr. Reston, VA 20191
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