On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Baishampayan Ghose <b.gh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> minidom is the fastest solution if you consider the programmer time >> instead of developer time. Minidom is available in standard library, >> you don't have to add another dependency and worry about PyPI >> downtimes and lxml compilations failures. > > FWIW, ElementTree is a part of the standard library as well and is > known to be much better than minidom in various ways.
Being part of the standard library is a big plus. However , as compared to lxml, one thing that seemed to be missing in more "standard" Python XML libraries is XSLT. This is incredibly useful in some contexts. I would love to learn about XSLT support in other libraries. Here is the blog post about the performance of Python XML libraries that I was referring to earlier: http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/03/30/python-html-parser-performance/ Regards, Gora _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
