On Sep 5, 7:37 am, "Edward K. Ream" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm hoping there is a principle that will simplify the transliteration
> from lxml to ElementTree, namely that all methods in common between
> lxml and ElementTree work exactly the same way.  This is a theorem,
> not a given.

It principle appears to be true.

I've carefully transliterated all the xpath code, at each stage
verifying that the newly-computed objects are exactly what xpath
returns.

The only code to be transliterated is enable_filters.  The code there
uses different xpath calls than typical.  I don't expect major
problems.

I contend that the new code is actually at least as easy to understand
than the xpath code.  I think it would have been just as easy to write
the new code as it would have been to write the old code.

In other words, for *this* application at least, lxml appears to add
exactly nothing of significance to ElementTree.

Edward

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