python premiere language for processing XML?

[D VanBoom]

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You claim to want Python to be the premier language for processing XML - but your pyxml module only supports Python 2.4?  I am trying to learn Python and so far very impressed with the core language but the Python community is a disaster area.
 
Documentation is sparse, fragmented and very poorly written. Examples are rare, and many modules are not compiled against the latest version of Python. 
 
I am writing this mostly out of frustration of a wasted afternoon trying to find a way to turn an XML string into HTML using some XSLT stylesheets I have already built and working in PHP.  (It only took me 10 minutes to learn this in PHP thanks to their outstanding documentation.)
 
I just wanted to let you know that I think your XML SIG and pyxml project appears dead and should be removed from the Python community.
 
best regards,
Don

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[John W. Shipman]

On Fri, 26 Dec 2008, D VanBoom wrote:

+--
| You claim to want Python to be the premier language for
| processing XML - but your pyxml module only supports
| Python 2.4?  I am trying to learn Python and so far very
| impressed with the core language but the Python community
| is a disaster area.   Documentation is sparse, fragmented
| and very poorly written. Examples are rare, and many modules
| are not compiled against the latest version of Python.
+--

I have no control over this claim on the python.org site,
but I can tell you that there is a much better interface,
the lxml module.  I've written a modest user guide that
covers reading, modifying, and generating XML:

     http://www.nmt.edu/tcc/help/pubs/pylxml

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or
comments.

Best regards,
John Shipman (john@...), Applications Specialist, NM Tech Computer Center,
Speare 119, Socorro, NM 87801, [phone], http://www.nmt.edu/~john
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