behavior.
Added support for the Attr.ownerElement attribute.
Everywhere: Define constant object attributes in the classes rather than
on the instances during object construction. This reduces the amount of
work needed for object construction and destruction; these need to be
lightweight operations on a DOM.
Node._get_firstChild(),
Node._get_lastChild(): Return None if there are no children (required for
compliance with DOM level 1).
Node.insertBefore(): If refChild is None, append the new node instead of
failing (required for compliance). Also, update the sibling
relationships. Return the inserted node (required for compliance).
Node.appendChild(): Update the parent of the appended node.
Node.replaceChild(): Actually replace the old child! Update the parent
and sibling relationships of both the old and new children. Return
the replaced child (required for compliance).
Node.normalize(): Implemented the normalize() method. Required for
compliance, but missing from the release. Useful for joining
adjacent Text nodes into a single node for easier processing.
Node.cloneNode(): Actually make this work. Don't let the new node share
the instance __dict__ with the original. Do proper recursion if
doing a "deep" clone. Move the attribute cloning out of the base
class, since only Element is supposed to have attributes.
Node.unlink(): Simplify handling of child nodes for efficiency, and
remove the attribute handling since only Element nodes support
attributes.
Attr.cloneNode(): Extend this to clear the ownerElement attribute in
the clone.
AttributeList.items(),
AttributeList.itemsNS(): Slight performance improvement (avoid lambda).
Element.cloneNode(): Extend Node.cloneNode() with support for the
attributes. Clone the Attr objects after creating the underlying
clone.
Element.unlink(): Clean out the attributes here instead of in the base
class, since this is the only class that will have them.
Element.toxml(): Adjust to create only one AttributeList instance; minor
efficiency improvement.
_nssplit(): No need to re-import string.
Document.__init__(): No longer needed once constant attributes are
initialized in the class itself.
Document.createElementNS(),
Document.createAttributeNS(): Use the defined constructors rather than
directly access the classes.
_get_StringIO(): New function. Create an output StringIO using the most
efficient available flavor.
parse(),
parseString(): Import pulldom here instead of in the public namespace of
the module.
correct order of constructor args in createAttributeNS
pulldom: use symbolic names for uri and localnames
correct usage of createAttribute and setAttributeNode signatures.
Fred Drake
Paul Prescod
Martin v. Löwis