At 08:10 PM 1/26/2006 -0500, Mike Taylor wrote:
I've opened a bug to research if it's possible to replace libxml2 with pyxml
https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5073
On Jan 26, 2006, at 7:29 PM, Grant Baillie wrote:
On Jan 26, 2006, at 15:28, Heikki Toivonen wrote:
libxml2 yes
Andi pointed out that we might be able to replace this with something
else (possibly smaller even), which could also get rid of the patch
requirement.
I know zanshin uses libxml2 currently. Anything else?
I know we need an XML lib that understands XML namespaces. Are any other
features required, like XPath? What would be good replacement libraries?
If you're doing namespace-aware callback-based XML parsing, then python's
own expat module will do the trick.
If you're turning XML into a full DOM tree (or vice versa), then I think
you need some other library. Besides libxml2, there's also pyxml
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyxml/>. (I don't know if this is either
smaller or better than libxml2).
There seems to be a strong meme out there that ElementTree is both faster
and easier to use than any other XML API for Python, and due to popular
acclaim it has been approved for inclusion in Python 2.5. I have not had
occasion to try it myself, however. Anyway, if it meets the requirements
then we'll get it "for free" when Python 2.5 comes around, allowing us to
then drop the separate dependency.
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