[XML-SIG] PyTRaX?

[Mike Olson]

Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
> 
> We now have two XSLT processors usable in Python: 4XSLT and Sablotron,
> and it seems that we soon will have another. Is it time to start
> thinking about a standardized API to these processors, something along
> the lines of TRaX?
> 
> I can think of the following areas that might be supported:
> 
>  - embedding processors; support for running transformations
> 
>  - support for providing structured input (streams, event streams,
>    document trees)
> 
>  - support for information exchange (error handlers, URI resolvers,
>    location information provision etc)
> 
>  - support for writing extension elements and functions (difficult)


I was thinking along these lines as well.  Something else I thought of
as needed is a way to register and retrieve instances of processors. 
Something like xml.xslt.newProcessor('4XSLT') and
xml.xslt.RegisterProcessor('Sablotron',Sablotron.Processor)

Mike
> 
> --Lars M.
> 
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