[XML-SIG] Python Wrapper for Xerces/Xalan

[Nuno Simoes]

From: "Juergen Hermann" <jh@web.de>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 4:02 PM


We consider doing a wrapper for Xerces and Xalan as an OS project. One
question is where to host it:

1. Own SourceForge project
2. Part of PyXML
3. Part of Xerces / Xalan projects

3 is unlikely. Option 2 seems not too clever, since installing Xerces
and Xalan are extra steps anyway, and I doubt anyone seriously wants to
include them in a standard PyXML distribution.

--> For the startup, probably the first option will be the better one.

Working title for the project would be "pirxx" (Python InteRface to
Xalan and Xerces, anyone who has read Stanislaw Lem should know where
the name comes from).

Before we really launch this, I also would like to know who's
interested into such a wrapper (I've seen some requests in the past)
and also who would be able and willing to contribute (developers,
documenters, beta-testers, ...).

--> Well, iam, and i believe that more ppl are, because with a python
wrapper, you can easilly use Xalan + Xerces in Zope, for example.
    Yesterday i was trying to do a module for python that use Xalan to
process some XML, but i had no skills in C++, so i first have to look to c++
to do it. Its kinda simple, if you look into the Python Manual.
    About your project, i could do some beta-testing. :-)

Nuno Simões,
rvti