On Oct 10, 2007, at 12:33 PM, mario ruggier wrote: > Do you mean that for the possibility to add support for another > quoting > category, in pure python, the implementation of the current categories > (xml, str) will need to necessarily become slower? No, I mean that the C-implementation of the xml quoting is fast, and alternate quoting categories would also need to be implemented in C if they were to be as fast. By the way, I like this html -> xml name change more and more. Maybe it will get some attention from a new audience.