This is just an exploratory e-mail as I don't know all the issues involved and don't want to get into a flamewar if someone has strong opinions on either side. I have been looking at what library to use for parsing the XML content in the dbus python bindings. Suggestions were to use lxml (http://codespeak.net/lxml/) however we don't currently ship it. Yum currently uses ElementTree for its parsing. lxml aims to be compatible with the ElementTree API with a few exceptions. On top of that it uses libxml2 as its base library and extends the ElementTree API with things like XPath, Relax NG, XSLT and c14n. While the dbus bindings don't need these features some of the other stuff I want to work on may. Is it a possibility to port yum to lxml? Are we married to ElementTree? Would having both libraries in the distribution be objectionable? Does anyone else have a deeper knowledge of either or both libraries that can shed more light on the issue. -- John (J5) Palmieri Associate Software Engineer Desktop Group Red Hat, Inc. Blog: http://martianrock.com -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
