[XML-SIG] Availability of libxml2 and libxslt Python bindings

[Daniel Veillard]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 02:26:49PM +0100, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> I've downloaded both the libxml2 and libxslt libs, but it's
> not clear to me where to find the Python extensions (there's
> some mention of them in libxslt, but nothing in libxml2).

  In the python subdir in the source tree

> Ideal would be to have them as distutils setup.py style
> packages, so that it is possible to install them without
> having to compile the libs themselves.

  Hum, a lot of them are actually generated, and then need
some preprocessing, the stubs for example are not part of the
archives (but build with a python script). This would basically
amount to rewrite the python/Makefile.am with a different facility.
The key point is that I'm not used to setup.py, it must have
some knowledge of the C compiler flags for shared libs, the path
to python binaries and associated paths, etc... Can you share a 
pointer describing this ?

> Also, I'm a little unsure how the David Kuhlman Python
> extensions fit into the picture: are they no longer needed
> or do they provide extra functionality ?

   They are not needed, I learned from David's binding but
the bindings are very different. Mine are automatically generated
from a strict definition of the libraries APIs (with a bit of glue
of course).

Daniel

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