From 504bc4f3b7a17299d864e48a2bc7ef62ce1daf2c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?Martin=20v=2E=20L=C3=B6wis?= Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 16:26:03 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Remove mentioning of Python 2.0 limitations. Fixes #607783. --- Doc/lib/xmldom.tex | 20 ++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/lib/xmldom.tex b/Doc/lib/xmldom.tex index b89769d556..bf4edac259 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 -- 2.40.0