[XML-SIG] Future plans

[Dieter Maurer]

Paul Prescod writes:
 > Dieter, is there any chance that your work could turn into a Python
 > parser for XPaths that could be used in place of the 4thought one?
My parser is based on Scott Hassan's (mailto:hassan@cs.stanford.edu)
PyBison package. This package has an unknown copying policy.

Some analysis would be necessary to determine whether the 4Thought parser
can be replaced with this one. Following suggestions in this list,
my parser uses a factory to create XPath objects as result of
parsing. Replacing the factory should allow to adapt it
easily to a different framework. Thus, in principle, it
should be possible. The factory, of cause, ties together parser
and framework. Changes in the framework are likely to call
for changes in the factory placing a burden on the maintainer.
I will take this burden only if the pure 4Thought
solution will not work in my environments (privately: Linux 2;
at work: Solaris, Windows and (fading out) Macs).

As told in a previous post, I do not yet have experience with
the 5Thought packages.


- Dieter