From: Pekka L. <pe...@ik...> - 2006-08-18 22:24:16
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Charlie Groves wrote: > As of last night, there are only 4 bugtests failing on trunk(for me at > least). All of them are related to PyXML being absent. I see there's > been a fair amount of discussion on getting it back into Jython on the > list. Is anyone still working on it? If not, does anyone have a > partially completed integration they'd like to send my way? > > I'm personally kinda lukewarm on PyXML in general. It seems like if > you want SAX or DOM from Jython you'd be better off using the Java > libraries, and I've found ElementTree more enjoyable than anything > DOM, SAX, StAX or otherwise. Are there big users of PyXML out there? I don't currently need PyXML because in our project we wrote a simple wrapper that uses Python XML modules in CPython and Java XML libraries in Jython. Having same XML APIs in Jython as in CPython would of course be very good from the compatibility point of view. I asked about XML in Jython a year ago [1] and then David Hume answered [2] and told that he was writing an implementation of the xml.dom using Java libraries and that he was planning to offer the module later to Jython team. We used his module in our project then and it worked very well. If you are interested you may want to contact David for more information. [1] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=12619393 [2] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=12620426 Cheers, .peke |