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@@ -5,6 +5,22 @@ Core language, builtins, and interpreter Standard library +- pyexpat now detects the expat version if expat.h defines it. A + number of additional handlers are provided, which are only available + since expat 1.95. In addition, the methods SetParamEntityParsing and + GetInputContext of Parser objects are available with 1.95.x + only. Parser objects now provide the ordered_attributes and + specified_attributes attributes. A new module expat.model was added, + which offers a number of additional constants if 1.95.x is used. + +- xml.dom offers the new functions registerDOMImplementation and + getDOMImplementation. + +- xml.dom.minidom offers a toprettyxml method. A number of DOM + conformance issues have been resolved. In particular, Element now + has an hasAttributes method, and the handling of namespaces was + improved. + Windows changes - Build: Subproject _test (effectively) renamed to _testcapi. @@ -122,6 +138,12 @@ Standard library - Removed the obsolete soundex module. +- xml.dom.minidom now uses the standard DOM exceptions. Node supports + the isSameNode method; NamedNodeMap the get method. + +- xml.sax.expatreader supports the lexical handler property; it + generates comment, startCDATA, and endCDATA events. + Windows changes - Build procedure: the zlib project is built in a different way that @@ -374,6 +396,26 @@ Standard library the caller. This is intended only as a building block for higher-level mechanisms such as string interpolation. +- The pyexpat module supports a number of new handlers, which are + available only in expat 1.2. If invocation of a callback fails, it + will report an additional frame in the traceback. Parser objects + participate now in garbage collection. If expat reports an unknown + encoding, pyexpat will try to use a Python codec; that works only + for single-byte charsets. The parser type objects is exposed as + XMLParserObject. + +- xml.dom now offers standard definitions for symbolic node type and + exception code constants, and a hierarchy of DOM exceptions. minidom + was adjusted to use them. + +- The conformance of xml.dom.minidom to the DOM specification was + improved. It detects a number of additional error cases; the + previous/next relationship works even when the tree is modified; + Node supports the normalize() method; NamedNodeMap, DocumentType and + DOMImplementation classes were added; Element supports the + hasAttribute and hasAttributeNS methods; and Text supports the splitText + method. + Build issues - For Unix (and Unix-compatible) builds, configuration and building of |