I'm looking for some library to parse XML code much faster than the libs built into Python 2.4 (I'm stuck with 2.4 for quite a while) and I also need XML Schema validation, and would appreciate support for e.g. XPath and XInclude. I also want an API which is more Pythonic than e.g. a thin wrapper over a C or C++ API.
It should be available on at least Linux, Solaris and AIX. Some uses involve parsing lots of (often small) XML files at reasonable speed, i.e. several hundred files per second. That means that we can't use anything like an os.system call to xmllint for XML Schema validation--it gets too slow. I also suspect that the standard Python libs (in Python 2.4 at least) are slower than we'd like them to be. (Not that it matters if they don't support XML Schema validation.) Any suggestions? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
