[reportlab-users] reportlab 2 xml parsing

[Andy Robinson]

will at phototropia.org wrote:
> Friends:
>      In upcoming releases of reportlab, will lib/xmllib, and
> platypus/paraparser remain intact?  That is, if I subclass
> ParaParser, and use its functions(getAttributes etc.) will their
> functionality/names be changed excessively in the near future?
> 

I don't think we will change lib/xmllib.  Within our own commercial 
product code we use pyRXP and a python wrapper (available in the pyRXP 
distro), and will continue to rely on the tuple-trees built by that.

paraparser might get some changes shortly to do with the Unicode
"version 2.0"; I just checked in Unicode CID font support on the UTF8 
branch, and we probably need to do something good with hyphenation
and "Japanese hyphenation" (kinsoku shori) this month, which might mean 
making it easier to subclass the paragraph machinery and put in 
paragraph hooks.  Also when we merge back in the UTF8 branch onto the 
trunk, the way we handle things like greek letters will change to yield 
the correct Unicode characters.   But the philosophy is "minimum 
possible breakage, just proper Unicode/utf8..." so I see no plans to 
change that "API".

- Andy