[1.3] Added documentation of the namespace URI for elements with no namespace.
[1.4] New property http://www.python.org/sax/properties/encoding.
[1.5] Support optional string interning in pyexpat.
[1.15]
Added understanding of the feature_validation, feature_external_pes,
and feature_string_interning features.
Added support for the feature_external_ges feature.
Added support for the property_xml_string property.
[1.16]
Made it recognize the namespace prefixes feature.
[1.17]
removed erroneous first line
[1.19]
Support optional string interning in pyexpat.
[1.21]
Restore compatibility with versions of Python that did not support weak
references. These do not get the cyclic reference fix, but they will
continue to work as they did before.
[1.22]
Activate entity processing unless standalone.
ContentHandler. While GC will eventually clean up, it can take longer than
normal for applications that create a lot of strings (or other immutables)
rather without creating many containers.
This closes SF bug #535474.
This is probably a little bit faster, but mostly is just cleaner code.
The old-style support is still used for Python versions < 2.2 so this
source file can be shared with PyXML.
