lxml is a Pythonic binding for the libxml2 and libxslt libraries, not really a tool or script.
For my process, the XML document is already in memory; it's actually faster to use the lxml library than to physically write out the file and make the system call to xsltproc.
thanks,
--Tim
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Seefeld [mailto:]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 9:54 AM
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> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] processing modular docbook
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> On 04/07/2010 09:45 AM, Tim Arnold wrote:
> > The next and final step is to produce XHTML from the DocBook intermediate
> files. I'm doing that on FreeBSD 6.3 using python 2.6 and the lxml-2.2.2
> package which, in turn, uses the libxml2.6.30 and libxslt1.1.22 libraries.
> >
>
> If all you do in this step is apply a set of stylesheets to transform DB
> to XHTML, why don't you use xsltproc directly, instead of some Python
> tool. I'm not sure what is involved in your (possibly custom)
> transformation, but this appears to be the bottleneck in the pipeline,
> and so looking into speeding that up may help quite a bit.
>
>
> Regards,
> Stefan
>
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