XSL transform with Python

[Uche Ogbuji]

"Brad Clements" <bkc at Murkworks.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.4456.1097101225.5135.python-list at python.org>...
> "Vegard Bakke" <vegard at mail.com> wrote in message
> news:33a013af.0410060646.3a821dc7 at posting.google.com...
> > Hi!
> >
> > All I want to do is transforming an XML into another XML using an XSLT
> > stylesheet.
> >
> > >From what I have found on the web/usenet there are several xml/xsl
> > libraries/wrapper, all in various stages of alpha/beta/stalled
> > releases. (Sablotron, Sab-pyth, PySablot, libxml2, libxslt are some of
> > those I found.)
> >
> > The script will be running in a production environment and must
> > therefore be stable above all. Alphas and Betas are not that welcome.
> >
> > Can anyone give me a pointer to what module to use, what is stable,
> > and what is and be stay standard for Python?
> >
> 
> 
> I use libxml2 and libxslt in production.
> 
> Simple code like this:
> 
>     stylesheetArgs = {}    # optional transform args
>     styleDoc = libxml2.parseDoc(docText)  # <xml ...xsl:stylesheet >
>     style = libxslt.parseStylesheetDoc(styleDoc)
> 
>     doc = libxml2.parseDoc(srcXML)    # <xml input file>
>     result = style.applyStylesheet(doc,stylesheetArgs)
>     res = style.saveResultToString(result)
>     style.freeStylesheet()
>     doc.freeDoc()
>     result.freeDoc()
>     return res
> 
> It's plenty fast, and you can re-use compiled stylesheets (that's not
> demonstrated above)

You can easily do the same with 4XSLT.

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