[reportlab-users] pyRXP and processing instructions

Dennis Allison reportlab-users@reportlab.com
Tue, 4 Mar 2003 17:12:13 -0800 (PST)


By the way, someone commented about maybe changing things to do a
full-scale DOM.  I would oppose that.  The tuple-tree is a much better
representation, IMHO.

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Andy Robinson wrote:

> > I like this choice too.
> > What was the purpose of the arg in the tuple tree?  How can it be neatly
> > used?
> 
> It was just a placeholder for future use and we have not
> figured out quite what for.  We figured that if we wrote 
> lots of client code like this:
>  (name, attrs, children, stuff) = myNode
> then we would not have to break this code later.  If we
> did (name, attrs, children) then it would break later.
>