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Brian Quinlan brian at sweetapp.com
Tue Feb 10 16:52:49 EST 2004 
Peter Hansen wrote:
> Aren't we talking about semantics now, and rather tritely at that?  So
> don't call it an XML parser, yet.  Wait until it no longer emits that
> message, whatever you want.  I'd call that throwing out the baby with the
> bath-water, if it means (a) nobody reports that as a bug, and (b) someone
> who could benefit from it even with that defect fails to do so because
> it's illegal and immoral to label it an "XML parser", much as it might
> want to be one, until it's perfect.

I don't think that anyone is arguing against pyRXP per se; I'm sure it has
its niche among people working with certain XML subsets. 

We are arguing that the fact that pyRXP even has a concept of an 8-bit XML
character means that it is probably pretty far from being a real XML parser.

Cheers,
Brian
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