Python XML API's that preserve XML comments?

[Dan Stromberg]

Are there any python XML parsing API's that preserve comments -
preferrably that come with python 2.5.1?

[Ben Finney]

Dan Stromberg <ds*************@gmail.comwrites:

Are there any python XML parsing API's that preserve comments

(I think you mean "python XML parsing libraries"; it's the library,
not the API, that preserves comments or not.)

I don't have an answer, but this may help to get more information.
The XML 1.0 specification allows for, but does not require, retention
of comments for access by the application:

2.5 Comments

[Definition: .... an XML processor MAY, but need not, make it
possible for an application to retrieve the text of comments. ...]

<URL:http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-comments>

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Ben Finney

[Stefan Behnel]

Dan Stromberg wrote:

Are there any python XML parsing API's that preserve comments -

Try lxml.

http://codespeak.net/lxml

preferrably that come with python 2.5.1?

It doesn't come with Python 2.5.1, but it's compatible to ElementTree, which
is part of the stdlib. So you can have a fallback to the stdlib if lxml is not
installed (though this will loose comments then).

Stefan