Hi, Gloria W wrote: > There's no chance of getting an extension to this module which supports > DOM2, is there? I cannot work with the current PyXML DOM2 support. It is > inflexible (does not allow subtree construction/insertion), is buggy, > and bloated.
Well, "bloat" is a word I would use for any DOM implementation. lxml is actually quite the opposite of the three: extremely flexible, safe and simple. > I wrote my own, but I don't have time to implement the > range() functionality. Let me know if there are plans to extend this. It > would be great. No. lxml will not support the DOM API. It already has a (mostly?) equivalent API that is much simpler in spirit (and thus much easier to use), so there is no reason for us to take the step back to the impressively un-pythonic DOM API. If you really want a W3C-DOM compatible API and want to use libxml2, there is a project that implements DOM on top of them: libxml2dom. http://www.boddie.org.uk/python/libxml2dom.html I assume this is for porting existing code? But even then, you may consider rewriting the XML parts in lxml. We had a couple of comments on the list that make me believe that this is a) not that hard (depending on your code size/architecture) and b) worth it, at least in the cases I heard about. Oh, and for the really hard-to-port stuff, you can still use Python's DOM support: http://codespeak.net/lxml/sax.html Stefan _______________________________________________ XML-SIG maillist - XML-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/xml-sig
