[lxml-dev] About lxml status

[David Soulayrol]

Good evening.

> Hey,
> 
> Stefan Behnel wrote:
> [snip]
> > lxml does not implement the DOM API either. Instead, as the cheeseshop page
> > nicely states:
> > 
> > ---------------------
> > lxml is a Pythonic binding for the libxml2 and libxslt libraries. It provides
> > safe and convenient access to these libraries using the ElementTree API.
> 
> Note that the ElementTree API is a developing Python standard, 
> implemented by 3 separate libraries, ElementTree, cElementTree and lxml. 
> ElementTree and cElement have become part of the core Python 
> distribution as of Python 2.5.
> 
> A lot of ElementTree documentation can be found here:
> 
> http://effbot.org/zone/element-index.htm
> 
> You can do common DOM-style manipulations through this API, just in a 
> more convenient manner.

Thanks for all your answers and you Martin for these precisions. I'm not
very used to Python 2.5 yet. I will have a deeper look in the new Python
features and the ElementTree API.

> As to XPath and XSLT support, lxml has that, including the ability to 
> create extension functions and the like. There are differences in 
> feature set here and there, but overall lxml should be able to compete 
> with 4Suite.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Martijn
> 

Thanks again.
--
David