Difference between revisions of "Why ElementTree"
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As of 8 Feburary 2006, [[CcPublisher]] has discarded libxml2/libxslt in favor of ElementTreefor XML and XPath manipulations. While libxml2 is a high-speed, memory efficient XML engine, there are a few reasons for this switch. | As of 8 Feburary 2006, [[CcPublisher]] has discarded libxml2/libxslt in favor of ElementTreefor XML and XPath manipulations. While libxml2 is a high-speed, memory efficient XML engine, there are a few reasons for this switch. | ||
Latest revision as of 22:45, 11 February 2006
As of 8 Feburary 2006, CcPublisher has discarded libxml2/libxslt in favor of ElementTreefor XML and XPath manipulations. While libxml2 is a high-speed, memory efficient XML engine, there are a few reasons for this switch.
- Unless there are large performance gains, we prefer pure-Python code over C extensions. Pure Python code is simply easier to deal with when packaging ccPublisher. ElementTree is implemented as pure Python, with a C implementation available in the event that performance does become an issue.
- As of Python 2.6, ElementTree will be included in the standard library.
- libxml2 and libxslt have Python bindings, but they are not memory managed.
- The amount of XML parsing done by the P6 framework is miniscule, so the pain of doing our own memory management and requiring a C extension module is not worth the performance increase.
