Re: [Jython-users] XML in Jython: ElementTree?

[Pekka L. <pe...@ik...>]

2007/9/14, Steve Lianoglou <lis...@ar...>:
> Hi,
>
> > The pure python does work   , I am using the one available here
> > http://effbot.org/downloads/elementtree-1.2.6-20050316.zip
>
> Just out of curiosity, would it make sense to Java-ize the "real"
> ElementTree (or lxml) library by swapping out the lib's internal
> calls to c libraries w/ calls to java xml libraries while keeping the
> python interface to them the same?

In my opinion that makes a lot of sense.

> This way, scripts will be portable between Jython and CPython and
> still be relatively performant, no? If, as I'm assuming, using the
> all-python version in this case causes a severe(?) penalty hit.

Exactly. Having same API in Jython and CPython would be great but
performance is often even more important.

Cheers,
    .peke