Re: [lxml-dev] helper functions for accepting elementtrees/elements/documents as input

Stefan Behnel wrote:

Hi!

I noticed that many of the API classes accept _ElementTree object, although it would make just as much sense to apply them to elements or (internally) to documents.

While I agree that cleaning up how this works might be a good thing, I wonder what this means for ElementTree compatibility. I.e. it'll become a lot easier to write lxml code that doesn't work in ElementTree. Perhaps we should check with Fredrik Lundh what he thinks first. Regards, Martijn