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Author	Petr Pulc
Recipients	Petr Pulc
Date	2016-10-17.12:44:57
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Message-id	<1476708298.12.0.219819102875.issue28460@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Hello, just an idea for improvement of minidom. Sometimes it is not convenient that the element attributes are sorted alphabetically. Usually, users do hack the minidom file themselves to force some behaviour, yet the order can be quite nicely defined by the DTD, for example. More on the "issue" side is another idea for improvement. Not all special characters do need to be changed to entities. For example, only < needs to be changed to entity in text data. I guess, that the _write_data function could be then diminished as well... What do you mean of these two ideas? Comments will be appreciated.

Hello,
just an idea for improvement of minidom.

Sometimes it is not convenient that the element attributes are sorted alphabetically.

Usually, users do hack the minidom file themselves to force some behaviour, yet the order can be quite nicely defined by the DTD, for example.

More on the "issue" side is another idea for improvement. Not all special characters do need to be changed to entities. For example, only < needs to be changed to entity in text data. I guess, that the _write_data function could be then diminished as well...

What do you mean of these two ideas? Comments will be appreciated.

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Date	User	Action	Args
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