[lxml-dev] lhtml

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi Ian,

Ian Bicking wrote:
> Ian Bicking wrote:
>> I really want to take all our HTML-related routines and put them into a 
>> proper package
> 
> And maybe a bit of advice -- we could just do this as a set of functions 
> (what we currently have), or potentially explore objectify and add the 
> routines as methods.  E.g., el.find_by_class('classname')

You're not using objectify as a base, are you? I mean, HTML is mainly about
text, so objectify will not help you much.


> This feels like a cleaner API, but I'm worried that it will mean 
> problems when mixing non-objectify-HTML with other elements, and if 
> there's problems with threads or memory overhead, or any other issues. 
> I don't really mind functions, which is why I am unsure; OTOH, almost 
> every function has a first argument of "el", which makes them seem like 
> methods.

What about implementing the HTML namespace in a couple of Element subclasses
and add the methods where they are appropriate? That sounds like a nice API to me.

Any chance you could post your code somewhere so that I could take a look at
what you're really contributing here?

Stefan