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Daniel Veillard wrote: | On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 12:34:44PM -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote: | |>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 | | | why not libxml2 python bindings directly ? At least if you have a | problem I know the full stack there. | | Daniel |
This is just a summary from the last time this dicussion came up, some of the details may be incorrect. I happen to like libxml2 and would try to fix these problems "If I Only Had The Time".
1. The bindings are very un-pythonic. The biggest wart off the top of ~ my head is that you have to manually free the document. The lxml ~ wrapper is an attempt to fix this problem.
2. "They are slow". As much as libxml2 is usually faster than expat, ~ but something about how the python bindings deal with strings makes ~ libxml2 slower in this case.
There may have been a third, but those two are the biggest problems that I remember. As for lxml not implementing the "iterparse" interface, I'd need to look into it more, but I'm pretty sure lxml could use libxml's XmlTextReader interface to implement this...
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