On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 22:32:59 +0200, K. N. wrote:
Is there any good and fast Python module for XSLT
processing ? I'm going to use XML and XSLT to generate
web pages, so I need XSLT processor that will be able
to transform for example a DOM object in memory - I
don't want to create XML file containing data and then
load it and transform with XSLT, but I want to do
this at once - without writing to a temporary file.
Actually I've seen alot articles about parsing XML,
but nothing about creating XML documents and storing
it as an object that will be passed to XSLT processor,
and that is what I'm planning to do.
I think its a quite good solution, but I have no idea
which modules will be most suitable for this task.
Does anyone have some experience in this matter and
could point me where should I look ?
Best regards,
K.
Here's a CGI I wrote to do this very thing.
It uses libxml2 & libxslt from the gnome libraries.
I wanted to make sure it was reasonably efficient, so I put a bunch of
timing code into it. It turns out that processing an XML file, and running
it through this XSLT processor is really fast.
I didn't bother to include page.xsl here, as it's actual contents are
irrelevant to the technique.
Enjoy!
cf
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#! /usr/bin/env python
import time
st = time.time()
import libxml2, libxslt
import cgi, os, sys
query = cgi.FieldStorage()
readtimestart = time.time()
styledoc = libxml2.parseFile("page.xsl")
style = libxslt.parseStylesheetDoc(styledoc)
doc = libxml2.parseFile(query['script'].value)
readtimeend = time.time()
start_converting = time.time()
result = style.applyStylesheet(doc, None)
done_converting = time.time()
html = result.serialize()
print "Content-type: text/html"
print
print html
style.freeStylesheet()
doc.freeDoc()
result.freeDoc()
et = time.time()
totaltime = et-st
print "<!-- Page served in %s seconds. -->" % totaltime
print "<!-- XML conversion took %s seconds. -->" %\
(done_converting-start_converting)
print "<!-- File reading took %s seconds. -->" %\
(readtimeend-readtimestart)
