Re: [xml] lxml 0.5 (python libxml2/libxslt bindings)

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 11:14:47PM +0200, Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm happy to announce (a last) the first release of lxml, new Python 
> bindings for libxml2 and libxslt that aim to expose the functionality of 
> the libraries in a more "Pythonic way". This means supporting 
> Python-style APIs for the manipulation of XML (in particular ElementTree 
> to manipulate libxml2's trees), and support for Python's garbage 
> collection.
>
> These bindings are completely independent from the Python bindings that 
> ship with libxml2 and libxslt already. The existing bindings are at the 
> moment far more complete and well-tested than lxml, so it depends on 
> your specific needs whether you want to decide to use lxml instead. I do 
> believe using lxml will make using libxml2/libxslt from python more easy 
> and less bugprone than has been the case with the libxml2-python and 
> libxslt-python bindings.

  Thanks -a bit late- for doing this, it is probably challenging :-)
I added pointers from http://xmlsoft.org/python.html to lxml, 

  good luck !

Daniel

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