[lxml-dev] using modules for XPath/XSLT extensions

Hi there, Even though I said I wouldn't consider XSLT extensions as I'm overwhelmed, Marc-Antoine brought up the module concept. I haven't played a lot with extension functions at all with libxslt, so I don't really know how it or the Python binding works now. However, do I understand you correctly, Marc-Antoine, that instead of a dictionary of function_name->function, you would instead pass in a Python module object? Or as I see in your example, a class object. This module object (or class object) would contain some special attributes: * the namespace the extension functions are in * the functions themselves * functions used to import these functions * a list of function names we want to register with XPath * possibly a mapping of python names to names as to be used in xpath, for instance to handle - instead of _ or camelcase. I would prefer having no automatic translation by default, as that's a bit too much magic, but we could think about somekind of special function name translation function that you could hook into. I haven't figured out yet where styleInit(self, stylesheet, URI) and friends fit in... Am not too clear on the use cases yet. Hm... Need to think more. Regards, Martijn
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Martijn Faassen