[mod_python] Re: XSLT and mod_python

"Richard Lewis" <richardlewis at fastmail.co.uk> wrote 
in message news:200705231716.05231.richardlewis at fastmail.co.uk...
> Therefore I use lxml[2] which implements Fredrik Lundh[3]'s ElementTree[4]
> interface (which is now part of the Python standard library, as of 2.5[5]) 
> as
> a wrapper around libxml/libxslt. Its a very nice way to work with XML/XSLT 
> in
> Python as its /very/ fast and it creates nice Pythonic data structures as 
> a
> result of your XSLT transformations which you can then go on to manipulate 
> in
> code (or just write to a string or file-like object). The only problem 
> I've
> had with it is, I /think/, that its causing crashing of the mod_python's
> Python interpreter when you use <xsl:import />. As I said, I /think/ this 
> is
> what's causing these crashes, but I'm not sure yet.

FWIW, I'm also using lxml and gone through a similar issue with a crash 
using lxml and the XSLT document() function. The solution was to use 
"PythonInterpreter main_interpreter", as I've found described on the 
documentation for 'xapian' (!). Stephan Behnel, lxml developer also 
suggested compiling lxml with(out?) threading support, but I didn't give 
that a try.

-- 
Sidnei da Silva
Enfold Systems, Inc.