[lxml-dev] xpath comparison

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi again,

Olivier Collioud wrote:
> for mref in definitionsTree.xpath('//MREF'):
>     if mref.get('START') <= symbol <= mref.get('END'):

If you really need a high-speed implementation for this, consider rewriting it
as an external Cython module that works directly on the libxml2 tree.

http://codespeak.net/lxml/capi.html#writing-external-modules-in-cython

The public C-API of lxml.etree is described here:

http://codespeak.net/svn/lxml/trunk/src/lxml/etreepublic.pxd

Stefan