[XML-SIG] PyXML XPath and XSLT

[Mike Olson]

On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 10:50, Uche Ogbuji wrote:
> I was meaning the human readable names.  But now that you mention it  :-)
> 
> Maybe it would be less confusing to use  xml.pyxpath and xml.pyxslt.  I like 
> it because the idea behind these modules as distinct from other XPath/XSLT for 
> Python is that they are implemented all in Python, except the boolean 
> extension, IIRC.  Of course, all we have to do is require Python 2.3 and we 
> can remove the boolean extension  <duck>.

number.c is also required.  There is no way to do what you need to do in
Python so it needs to be in C.

Mike

> 
> Aside: Python 2.3 will also bring us sets.  Yes!  Yes!  Hallelujah!  Finally!
> 
> :-)
> 
> 
> >  > If this seems like a good idea, how about "pyxpath" and "pyxslt"?
> > 
> > If we're talking about names-for-humans, how about PyXPath and PyXSLT?
> 
> Sure.
> 
> 
> >  > Anyway, I think we should decide on these matters before the next release.  
> >  > Things have been up in the air way too long.
> > 
> > Too long, yes, but that's not a good reason to rush a decision in the
> > next couple of days.  When 4Suite 0.12 comes out and Martin updates
> > the code in PyXML, we can have another release with any needed
> > documentation updates we need to make.
> 
> OK.
> 
> 
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