[XML-SIG] PyXML 0.7 & 4XSLT
Uche Ogbuji
uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com
Fri, 12 Apr 2002 06:37:59 -0600
> [Fred L. Drake, Jr.]
>
> >
> > I've trawled through the list archives looking for an answer, and it
> > looks like the answer is "There is no version of 4Suite that works
> > with PyXML 0.7."
> >
> > Is this right? Does the xml.xslt package stand a chance? Just how
> > complicated has the installation dance become?
> >
> > --sigh--
> >
>
> Whoa, hold on, everyone! I am running pyxml 0.7 with 4Suite 0.11.1 and I
> can run transformations with 4xslt. I just tried it out to verify my
> memory. I am using Python 1.5.2 on Windows, but I seem to recall that I got
> it working with 2.1 also.
>
> I remember one or two bugs in xpath and somewhere else that I had to fix - I
> posted about them months ago. I can't remember if nothing worked until I
> fixed them or just one particular thing. Probably the latter. The deal is
> to install pyxml 0.7 first, then delete any ft, xpath, and xslt directories
> and install 4suite.
>
> I can't say about any CVS versions. I'm talking about the distribution I
> got from SourceForge quite some time ago.
Or just use
python setup.py --without-xslt --without-xpath install
I suppose the job of integrating XPath/XSLT just got easier, since fiddling to
remove pDomlette is no longer necessary. But it's stil a job.
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