Re: [xslt] Python bindings and xsldbg

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 03:10:21PM +1000, Keith Isdale wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Just wondering, is it expected/hoped that the python binding be able to be 
> used to extend libxslt creating new XPath functions that will become 
> "built-in" to libxslt. Or is it going to be more general that that? With 
> xsldbg I've taken the view that only a few, very able people, will be 
> extending  libxslt so there is no/little demand for debugging XPath and 
> "built-in" functions.

  Indeed, the intent is to extend the XSLT core with Python written
functions, there is examples in CVS. I have put libxml2 and libxslt
test RPMs supporting this at ftp://xmlsoft.org/test/

> If it is expected that adding fuctions via python is going to be commonly 
> used then I'd like some discussion about how/if it is possible to debug the 
> "libxslt user" python code. I see in the python library that there is a 
> module called "pdb" which can be used to debug python scripts. Though I 
> imagine that python will be invoked as a "C" function rather than via the 
> interpretor. 

  Please discuss language binding specific issues in xml-bindings@gnome.org

Daniel

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