[lxml-dev] Jython and XPointer support

[Daniel Albeseder]

Hi!

I wonder if there is, or will be any Jython support of lxml? We are
currently evaluating several possibilities to support several
XML-features in Python and Jython together. This includes XPath, XSLT,
XPointer. The last one is supported by libxml2 but I have not found any
support inside lxml. Have I missed something? Will there be XPointer
support in lxml in the future?

About Jython: There is of course the possibility to use JNA to access
the libxml2 library natively, but I do not comprehend how to access lxml
from within Jython, since it is not a "normal" shared library, but a
shared object created for CPython in Cython. Does anyone have any hint
about that?

Best regards
Daniel