PyXML and Python-2.6

[Andrew MacKeith]

The Python.org "SIG for XML Processing in Python" page indicates that
"The SIG, through the mailing list and the PyXML project hosted on
SourceForge...".

The PyXML project on SourceForge " is no longer maintained. ", so
perhaps the SIG page could be updated.

Is there a guide to porting projects that depend on PyXML to Python-2.6?

Andrew MacKeith

 

[Paul Boddie]

The Python.org "SIG for XML Processing in Python" page indicates that
"The SIG, through the mailing list and the PyXML project hosted on
SourceForge...".

The PyXML project on SourceForge " is no longer maintained. ", so
perhaps the SIG page could be updated.

I think the SIG pages should be migrated to the Wiki. There seems to
be some work proceeding on this:

http://wiki.python.org/moin/Special_Interest_Groups

Is there a guide to porting projects that depend on PyXML to Python-2.6?

You could start here:

http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonXml

Look under "W3C DOM-like libraries" for some candidates. I've
maintained libxml2dom for quite some time because I started out with
PyXML and wanted something whose maintenance was guaranteed, even if
it was me who was going to be doing it.

Paul

 

[Stefan Behnel]

The Python.org "SIG for XML Processing in Python" page indicates that
"The SIG, through the mailing list and the PyXML project hosted on
SourceForge...".

The PyXML project on SourceForge " is no longer maintained. ", so
perhaps the SIG page could be updated.

Is there a guide to porting projects that depend on PyXML to Python-2.6?

Depending on how large your project is (and how well you encapsulated the
XML code), a partial rewrite using ElementTree or lxml might be worth it.
You'd be rewarded by simple and very fast code.

Stefan