[Dev] Linux package distribution status

[Grant Baillie]

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