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Remove mentioning of Python 2.0 limitations. Fixes #607783.

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Martin v. Löwis 2002-09-11 16:26:03 +00:00
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@ -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