Re: [xml] python binding for xmlCatalogAddLocal() ?

[Brent M Hendricks <brentmh ece rice edu>]

Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 10:36:50AM -0500, Brent Hendricks wrote:
>
> > Is there a python binding xmlCatalogAddLocal() ? I looked through 
> > libxml2.py but couldn't find anything.  Or if there isn't, is there an 
> > equivalent way to do the same thing (add a catalog to a document in a 
> > threadsafe way)?
>
>
>   Hum, no there aren't any bindings for per document catalogs ATM.
> The entry points are not directly converted because the pointer
> "void *" has no type and hence can't be mapped to existing Python
> type or classes wrappers.
>   That would require specific glue code at the bindings level.

Bummer :(  I'm using the python bindings to do XSLT tranforms in Zope 
which is multithreaded.  Other than the local catalog problem, it works 
fantastically.  How hard would it be to write the "glue code" for this? 
 Is it on the horizon?

-- Brent

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