I'm working on a basic Routes implementation according to the spec on
the wiki.  Ben is helping with the unit tests and some of the coding.
I hope to get a partial-feature release by early February.

WebHelpers is waiting till I make some headway on Routes.  Ben is
going to add JQuery and YUI support, including using them together.  A
couple people volunteered to help with those libraries; you can
coordinate with Ben.  We'll also need documentation and HOWTOs on
using these libraries in Pylons, including examples of their features.
 That's not completely dependent on WebHelpers and can be started now.

I'm still undecided about WebHelpers' HTML building: ElementTree,
lxml, or something else.  I think we'll just try both of those and see
which works better.

Advantages of ElementTree:
- No installation hassles.

Advantages of lxml:
- It's becoming common in other Python projects, potentially emerging
as a standard.
- Ian Bicking recommends it:
http://blog.ianbicking.org/lxml-transformations.html.
- HTML output, which is more compatible with the current generation of
browsers than XHTML.
  (Injecting XHTML into HTML documents is undesirable, though we may
be able to get away with it
  until the tools improve.)
- Support for quirky HTML input.  (Not needed now but maybe in the future.)

Installing lxml:
- Debian/Ubuntu require the libxml2-dev and libxslt-dev packages.
- Precompiled Windows eggs are on PyPI for the non-latest development
versions.  These may
require downloading and installing manually to prevent easy_install
from trying to compile from source.

-- 
Mike Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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