On Jun 17, 10:54 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Do you know if there is such XPath engine that can be applied to a DOM- > > like structure ? > > No. But I toyed with the idea to write one :) > > > One way would be to take an XPath engine from an existing XML engine > > (ElementTree, or any other), and see what APIs it calls... and see if > > we cannot create a DOM-like structure that has the same API. Duck > > typing, really... > > Why can't you create a *real* DOM? > > Diez
I don't know what "real" means, in fact. In python, being a "real" sg is all about having the same interface, right? May be I did not undertand what you meant. I cannot load all the data in memory before I request it, because it would take too long. If using XPath-like tools requires that I load the data in memory, I'd better create my own algorithm instead. It will be much faster. What I mean it: if I have a XPath engine that works well on a specific DOM-like structure... may be I can create my own DOM-lile structure to fool the XPath engine; so that I can use it on my own structure. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
