[openstack-dev] [oslo] Fate of xmlutils

Christopher Yeoh cbkyeoh at gmail.com
Mon Sep 29 23:58:22 UTC 2014


On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 18:03:20 +0200
Julien Danjou <julien at danjou.info> wrote:
> 
> It seems that Python fixed that issue with 2 modules released on PyPI:
> 
>   https://pypi.python.org/pypi/defusedxml
>   https://pypi.python.org/pypi/defusedexpat
> 
> I'm no XML expert, and I've only a shallow understanding of the issue,
> but I wonder if we should put some efforts to drop xmlutils and our
> custom XML fixes to used instead these 2 modules.

Nova XML API support is marked as deprecated in Juno. So hopefully
we'll be able to just drop XML and associated helper modules within a
couple of cycles.

Chris



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