PyXML XPath and XSLT Re: [XML-SIG] Mass assignment of 4Suite bug reports

[Mike Olson]

On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 10:57, Uche Ogbuji wrote:
> 
> > So, if a user tries to import xml.xslt.processor it will first look to
> > see if Ft.Xml.Xslt.Processor is available, and if not, then try
> > xml.pyxslt.Processor.  Or, any other of the xslt processors that people
> > are proposing.
> > 
> > This means a common (or close to common) set of interfaces on Xslt
> > parsers but that shouldn't be too hard to come up with.
> 
> Luckily, the only interfaces to the outside for the general programmer are
> 
> Processor

In fact, for the public interface, we wouldn't even need the next two.

> InputSource(Factory)
> Context, XsltContext
> Compile, Match, Evaluate

I had in mind something like:

parser = xml.xpath.get_default_parser()
parser.compile
parser.evaluate
parser.match

and

processor = xml.xslt.get_default_processor()
processor.apply("src string",["stys"],params)


I think if you want anything above and beyond that then you need to
use a specific processor.

Mike

> 
> These should be easy to standardize.
> 
> I think the bigger roadblock might be the extension APIs, since those tend to 
> be close to internals.
> 
> 
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