[XML-SIG] Re: XPath in Python 2

[Stuart Hungerford]

xml-sig-request@python.org wrote:

> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 11:45:08 -0500
> From: Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
> To: "xml-sig@python.org" <xml-sig@python.org>
> Subject: [XML-SIG] XPath in Python 2
>
> [...]
>
> Why XPath? XPath is the W3C-provided mechanism for navigating XML
> documents in a declarative way. That means that rather than specifying
> an exact path to a node, you describe the relationship between the node
> you are on and the node you want to get to. This makes the creation of
> complex applications much easier and allows for more efficiency "under
> the hood" of the XPath implementation.

     Has anyone looked at Matt Seargent's "XPathScript" (sp?) -- part of
     the Apache XML delivery stuff?

     I can see it as a much easier alternative to using pure XSLT except it's
    all based on Perl.   Could something similar be done for the Python
    community?  Maybe it could be based on 4XSLT?


Stu