[lxml-dev] lxml.html landed

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi all,

I finally merged the lxml.html branch into the trunk. This includes the
package lxml.html, the module lxml.cssselect, and the XML/HTML doctest
support. All were written by Ian Bicking, with only a couple of minor changes
and comments by myself. Thanks Ian!

One more thing I changed for the merge was to let get_element_by_id() raise an
exception if no default is passed (like getattr() does). That way, you can be
explicit about what you want: None or an exception.

I took another quick look at the parser functions and I think they look OK
now. The alpha cycle of lxml 2.0 will hopefully tell us if they work as people
expect.

I'll try to take another look at the pending objectify changes by Holger. Once
I get through them, the time for the first alpha release of lxml 2.0 has come.
You can expect it at the end of august.

So, a call to all contributors and those who want to help out:

*Please help out looking through the new APIs and the trunk documentation!*

There were loads of changes and the new modules could well benefit from a
couple of additional paragraphs in the docs. As usual, the HTML version is at

http://codespeak.net/lxml/dev/

Thanks for the great code, Ian!

Stefan