How to request data from a lazily-created tree structure ?

Diez B. Roggisch deets at nospam.web.de
Tue Jun 17 17:54:16 EDT 2008


> Do you know if there is such XPath engine that can be applied to a DOM-
> like structure ?

No. But I toyed with the idea to write one :)

> One way would be to take an XPath engine from an existing XML engine
> (ElementTree, or any other), and see what APIs it calls... and see if
> we cannot create a DOM-like structure that has the same API. Duck
> typing, really...


Why can't you create a *real* DOM?

Diez



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