To be preise, XPath is not fully supported. Don't be a smart asshole. ===================================================================== "Stefan Behnel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Peter Pei wrote: >> One bad design about elementtree is that it has different ways parsing a >> string and a file, even worse they return different objects: >> 1) When you parse a file, you can simply call parse, which returns a >> elementtree, on which you can then apply xpath; > > ElementTree doesn't support XPath. In case you mean the simpler > ElementPath > language that is supported by the find*() methods, I do not see a reason > why > you can't use it on elements. > > >> 2) To parse a string (xml section), you can call XML or fromstring, but >> both return element instead of elementtree. This alone is bad. To make >> it worse, you have to create an elementtree from this element before you >> can utilize xpath. > > a) how hard is it to write a wrapper function around fromstring() that > wraps > the result Element in an ElementTree object and returns it? > > b) the same as above applies: I can't see the problem you are talking > about. > > Stefan
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