most complete xml package for Python?

Gerard Flanagan grflanagan at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Mar 13 10:30:01 EDT 2007


On Mar 13, 1:43 pm, "metaperl" <metap... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Without even checking them all out, I'm thinking the Amara XML Toolkit
> must be the most feature-packed. The developers are readily available
> on IRC for support and they seem to make regular releases.
>
> As a meld3 user, I have been using ElementTree under the hood, but was
> dismayed to find out that you can't find elements by attribute and I
> am finding it difficult to remove elements.

Hardly in competition with Amara or lxml, but I wrote this extension
to ElementTree which handles attributes to a limited extent:

    http://gflanagan.net/site/python/utils/elementfilter/

(Be aware that parts of the filter string are 'eval-ed')

Gerard





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