[lxml-dev] XPath2 and XQuery support via XQilla?

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi,

Dennis Benzinger wrote:
> Would it be possible to add XPath2 and XQuery support via XQilla
> <http://xqilla.sourceforge.net> to lxml?

Possibly. It's a somewhat unofficial design goal of lxml to interface with
great tools. Would need some deeper insights, though.

At first glance, XQilla doesn't seem to have complete XQuery support. Also,
XPath2/XQuery is a lot about XML schema, so it's not just like changing the
XML tree implementation would do the job already.


> The problem I see is that XQilla is built on top of Xerces-C and lxml
> uses libxml2.

That is the obvious problem. :)

Sounds like a bigger project, so don't expect any code unless a) you do it
yourself or b) someone really wants to pay for it.

Stefan