[XML-SIG] xpath

[Uche Ogbuji]

On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 08:31, Ajay wrote:
> hi!
> 
> is there a Python implementation of xpath that doesn't use any C code and
> is purely in Python? Is there one as a standalone package.

I think the XPath impl in PyXML only uses C for the boolean type.  If
you're on Python 2.3+, you could easily tweak it to use the built-in
bool instead.

Also, ElementTree is pure Python and offers partial XPath support.



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