Mike McGavin wrote: >> is the DOM API an absolute requirement? > > It wouldn't need to conform to the official specifications of the DOM API, > but I guess I'm after > some comparable functionality. > > In particular, I need to be able to parse a namespace-using XML document into > some kind of node > tree, and then being able to query the tree to select elements based on their > namespace and local > tag names, and so on. I don't mind if the methods provided don't conform > exactly to DOM > specifications.
sounds like this might be exactly what you need: http://effbot.org/zone/element-index.htm (it's also the fastest and most memory-efficient Python-only parser you can get, but I suppose that's not a problem ;-) </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list