[mod_python] libxml2 and libxslt in mod_python

Diego Guillen adsldieg at tpg.com.au
Wed Aug 2 21:19:53 EDT 2006


Hi Blaise, 
   Thanks for your response. 
   I'll examine the links you suggested.
Thanks,
   Diego


On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 20:56 -0400, Laflamme Blaise wrote:
> 
> > QUESTIONS
> > 
> > My questions are: 
> > 
> > * is it possible to access the libxml2, libxslt libraries in
> > mod_python?
> > 
> 
> 
> Yes. But the API is a bit unpythonic.
> 
> > * is there an alternative better way for doing xslt in Python?
> > 
> 
> 
> lxml - http://codespeak.net/lxml/
> 
> > * is there any good Python-based documentation on the use of these
> > 
> > libraries without recurring to the C description
> > (http://xmlsoft.org/)?
> > 
> 
> 
> If you are using lxml it follows the excellent ElementTree API
> 
> 
> http://effbot.org/zone/element-index.htm
> 
> > * and this may sound heretical on this mailing list: is there a way
> > 
> > better than mod_python to write web applications with Python?
> > 
> 
> 
> Better or not... You have the choice! There is a lot of good python
> librairies and frameworks ready to use out there and since most of
> them use the WSGI ref you can benefit a large code base.
> 
> Blaise Laflamme
> blaise at laflamme.org
> 
> 
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