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author | Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> | 2002-09-11 16:26:03 (GMT) |
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committer | Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> | 2002-09-11 16:26:03 (GMT) |
commit | 504bc4f3b7a17299d864e48a2bc7ef62ce1daf2c (patch) | |
tree | 4b2834a4e361ae4a48ad5de64dba22a71e6f8379 /Doc/lib | |
parent | d4774fb6efde8facccfe0b60a37e3ecd4a943bd9 (diff) | |
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Remove mentioning of Python 2.0 limitations. Fixes #607783.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/xmldom.tex b/Doc/lib/xmldom.tex index b89769d..bf4edac 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/xmldom.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/xmldom.tex @@ -40,20 +40,20 @@ code. The DOM is a standard tree representation for XML data. The Document Object Model is being defined by the W3C in stages, or ``levels'' in their terminology. The Python mapping of the API is substantially based on the DOM Level 2 recommendation. Some aspects -of the API will only become available in Python 2.1, or may only be -available in particular DOM implementations. +of the API will only become available in future Python releases, or +may only be available in particular DOM implementations. DOM applications typically start by parsing some XML into a DOM. How this is accomplished is not covered at all by DOM Level 1, and Level 2 -provides only limited improvements. There is a +provides only limited improvements: There is a \class{DOMImplementation} object class which provides access to -\class{Document} creation methods, but these methods were only added -in DOM Level 2 and were not implemented in time for Python 2.0. There -is also no well-defined way to access these methods without an -existing \class{Document} object. For Python 2.0, consult the -documentation for each particular DOM implementation to determine the -bootstrap procedure needed to create and initialize \class{Document} -and \class{DocumentType} instances. +\class{Document} creation methods, but no way to access an XML +reader/parser/Document builder in an implementation-independent way. +There is also no well-defined way to access these methods without an +existing \class{Document} object. In Python, each DOM implementation +will provide a function \function{getDOMImplementation}. DOM Level 3 +adds a Load/Store specification, which defines an interface to the +reader, but this is not implemented in Python. Once you have a DOM document object, you can access the parts of your XML document through its properties and methods. These properties are |