[Python-Dev] Integrating Expat

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Martin von Loewis wrote:
> 
> > If you want a very fast validating XML parser, RXP would also
> > be a good choice -- AFAIK, the RXP folks would allow us to
> > ship RXP under a different license than GPL which is then
> > bound to Python.
> 
> RXP would indeed be a choice. Of course, integrating it is much
> harder; you'd have to write the C module first, plus documentation,
> plus a SAX driver, plus test cases. I'm not sure how much code you can
> inherit from PyLTXML.
> 
> On performance: Please have a look at
> 
> http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/Benchmark/exec.html
> 
> which suggests that expat still has a speed advantage over rxp
> (assuming that the measurements where done carefully, i.e. disabling
> validation in RXP).

How would libxml fit into this picture ?

	http://xmlsoft.org/

libxml is written in C as well and under the LGPL.

There's also Apache's Xerces which is written in a portable subset
of C++ (is probably to big though to be intergated into Python):

	http://xml.apache.org/xerces-c/

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