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If answer #1 is chosen and the others rejected, then the
docs remain misleading, since the average reader just wants
to know what types to expect from an implementation (or
should code into their implementation), and shouldn't be
expected to know the relationship between Booleans and
integers. Is it even reasonable to expect that this
relationship will always be true? In any case, I'd rather
see it made explicit as to why minidom doesn't seem, at
first, to respect the type mapping, at least in current
implementations. It could be as simple as adding Andrew's
comment, phrased as "This DOM mapping is derived from the
IDL mapping for Python, which predates the introduction of
BooleanType, which is currently a subtype of IntegerType.
Implementations may use either type." or some such.