- pyexpat now detects the expat version if expat.h defines it. A

number of additional handlers are provided, which are only available

since expat 1.95. In addition, the methods SetParamEntityParsing and

GetInputContext of Parser objects are available with 1.95.x

only. Parser objects now provide the ordered_attributes and

specified_attributes attributes. A new module expat.model was added,

which offers a number of additional constants if 1.95.x is used.

- xml.dom offers the new functions registerDOMImplementation and

getDOMImplementation.

- xml.dom.minidom offers a toprettyxml method. A number of DOM

conformance issues have been resolved. In particular, Element now

has an hasAttributes method, and the handling of namespaces was

improved.

- xml.dom.minidom now uses the standard DOM exceptions. Node supports

the isSameNode method; NamedNodeMap the get method.

- xml.sax.expatreader supports the lexical handler property; it

generates comment, startCDATA, and endCDATA events.

- The pyexpat module supports a number of new handlers, which are

available only in expat 1.2. If invocation of a callback fails, it

will report an additional frame in the traceback. Parser objects

participate now in garbage collection. If expat reports an unknown

encoding, pyexpat will try to use a Python codec; that works only

for single-byte charsets. The parser type objects is exposed as

XMLParserObject.

- xml.dom now offers standard definitions for symbolic node type and

exception code constants, and a hierarchy of DOM exceptions. minidom

was adjusted to use them.

- The conformance of xml.dom.minidom to the DOM specification was

improved. It detects a number of additional error cases; the

previous/next relationship works even when the tree is modified;

Node supports the normalize() method; NamedNodeMap, DocumentType and

DOMImplementation classes were added; Element supports the

hasAttribute and hasAttributeNS methods; and Text supports the splitText

method.