[XML-SIG] PyXML 0.7 & 4XSLT

[Mike Olson]

On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 11:48, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
> 
> Martin v. Loewis writes:
>  > Mostly. The precise wording should be "no released version of
>  > 4Suite". The 0.12alpha versions reportedly work fine.

As of 0.12.0 we moved the Xslt processor to Ft.Xml.Xslt to avoid
conflicts with PyXML.

Mike

> 
> If I use Python 2.2.1, PyXML 0.7, and 4Suite 0.12a2, with this script:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> #! /usr/bin/env python2.2
> 
> import sys
> from xml import xslt
> from xml.xslt import minisupport
> from xml.xslt import XsltException
> from xml.xslt.Processor import Processor        ### breaks here
> 
> p = Processor()
> reader = minisupport.MinidomReader(0)
> p.setDocumentReader(reader)
> p.appendStylesheetUri(sys.argv[1])
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I get the following traceback:
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> grendel(~/tmp); python2.2 tmp.py file:///home/fdrake/projects/python/trunk/Doc/tools/sgmlconv/xslt/module.xsl 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "tmp.py", line 7, in ?
>     from xml.xslt.Processor import Processor
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/site-packages/_xmlplus/xslt/Processor.py", line 24, in ?
>     from xml.xslt import StylesheetReader, ReleaseNode
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/site-packages/_xmlplus/xslt/StylesheetReader.py", line 66, in ?
>     XML_PARSE_ERROR = Ft.Lib.XML_PARSE_ERROR
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'XML_PARSE_ERROR'
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>  > Sorry, I don't understand the phrase "stand a chance".
> 
> Sorry for being obscure.  What I mean is that I'm skeptical that the
> current situation will be maintainable for any length of time.  With
> 4Suite and PyXML having the current strange relationship they have,
> it's really painful trying to keep up with which versions work
> together and which don't.  The xml.xslt package seems to end up very
> unstable.
> 
> My understanding is that 4Thought intends to move 4XSLT entirely into
> PyXML, where it will be maintained, but in the meanwhile, we don't
> really seem to have a good XSLT strategy.
> 
> 
>   -Fred
> 
> -- 
> Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fdrake at acm.org>
> PythonLabs at Zope Corporation
> 
> 
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