Good XML tools?

[Laurent Szyster]

Gillou wrote:
> 
> I know that plaiying with pyXML is a mess for newbies because of its
> lack of good documentation. But PyXML is always said to be in beta
> status.

And allways will be. Python is not the right language to write XML
libraries: it's way too slow.

> If you're on a Win32 platform and don't care about portability, you
> can play with MSXML 4.0 that's a full featured, fast and fully
> documented XML suite. Examples are mainly in VBS or JavaScript but
> easily translatable to Python.

And for Linux there are Python bindings for libxml and libxslt. See:

	http://xmlsoft.org/

and

	http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/

In many case (if not most) XML processing is far easier with a
dedicated language like XSLT. Use Python to generate XML and/or
XSLT, but don't use it to transform XML: XSLT is far better at it.


Laurent Szyster