Ross Ridge wrote: >> The problem is, the Python version is (at a guess) about three times >> slower than the ASP one. > > It could just be that 4suite is slower than MSXML. If so, you can use > MSXML in Python if you want. or use lxml: http://codespeak.net/lxml/ (does anyone have any lxml/libxslt vs. msxml benchmarks, btw?) </F>