[lxml-dev] Network downloading of schemas should be off by default?

[Fred Drake]

On 6/1/07, Itamar Shtull-Trauring <itamar at itamarst.org> wrote:
> Right now, AFAICT, is is on by default in lxml.etree.XMLParser. Network
> queries by library code are a bad idea: it's an unexpected behavior,
> causing potential security risk and guaranteed performance problems.

I actually like the way the SAX interface handles this; you provide
something that resolves references however you want, and it uses that.


  -Fred

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