[Dev] Linux package distribution status

[Mike Taylor]

I've opened a bug to research if it's possible to replace libxml2 with 
pyxml

https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5073

On Jan 26, 2006, at 7:29 PM, Grant Baillie wrote:

> On Jan 26, 2006, at 15:28, Heikki Toivonen wrote:
>
>>> libxml2 	yes
>>
>> Andi pointed out that we might be able to replace this with something
>> else (possibly smaller even), which could also get rid of the patch
>> requirement.
>>
>> I know zanshin uses libxml2 currently. Anything else?
>>
>> I know we need an XML lib that understands XML namespaces. Are any 
>> other
>> features required, like XPath? What would be good replacement 
>> libraries?
>
> If you're doing namespace-aware callback-based XML parsing, then 
> python's own expat module will do the trick.
>
> If you're turning XML into a full DOM tree (or vice versa), then I 
> think you need some other library. Besides libxml2, there's also pyxml 
> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyxml/>. (I don't know if this is 
> either smaller or better than libxml2).
>
> --Grant
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