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Brian Quinlan brian at sweetapp.com
Tue Feb 10 13:50:50 EST 2004 
Peter:
> Hmm... so it's your opinion that *all* XML parsers must handle *all*
> aspects of XML? 

If it isn't Uche's opinion then it is mine.

> If not, I think you should back off on the criticism
> of PyRXP as being "not an XML parser" and simply point out that it
> doesn't handle all aspects of XML because it is intended to provide
> a very fast/heavily optimized approach to parsing only certain kinds
> of XML.  

Then it is not an XML parser. It is a "foo" parser, where "foo" is subset of
XML.

> It's a valid choice to do so, though of course if PyRXP is
> promoted as a "full" XML solution that might be inaccurate.

I have no problem with the existence of PyRXP. It just isn't an XML parser.

Cheers,
Brian
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