[lxml-dev] Using EXSLT extensions on Windows with standard lxml binaries

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi,

Alexander Kozlovsky wrote:
>> Alexander Kozlovsky wrote:
>>> I'm trying to use EXSLT extension functions on Windows
>>> with standard lxml binary distribution (lxml-1.3.6.win32-py2.4.exe)
>>>
>>> I'm trying to do the next, but it is not work as expected:
>> What result do you get?
> 
> This exception:
> 
> XSLTApplyError: Internal error: Failed to evaluate the AVT of attribute 'class'
> 
>> Try removing the following line (except for the '>', obviously):
>>
>>> extension-element-prefixes="str">
> 
> I got the same error

Interesting. Could you run the test suite from the source distribution? There
are a couple of EXSLT tests in there.

Just unpack the source tar.gz from PyPI and (having lxml installed) run
"python test.py".


>>> Is it possible to use EXSLT extensions on Windows without rebuilding
>>> of standard binaries?
>> Never tried, but I wouldn't know a reason why this should fail.
> 
> Probably I misread this old message:
> http://codespeak.net/pipermail/lxml-dev/2006-April/001098.html
> 
> "However, this requires linking against libexslt"
> 
> So, I have supposed (maybe incorrectly) standard widows binaries
> does not linked against libexslt

That shouldn't have anything to do with it.

Stefan