id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc
70,Genshi Markup to lxml fast converter,ianb@…,cmlenz,"I'm doing a lot of stuff with lxml now, much of which takes the form of a pipeline, transforming output through multiple stages.  There's opportunities to do this very efficiently if the markup isn't constantly serialized and reparsed.  lxml itself is uniquely qualified for this role -- in part because of the tools it has, but also largely because it has a pretty good HTML parser.

Anyway, the sad part is that nothing produces lxml output currently except other lxml tools.  Genshi doesn't either, for reasons I understand (even if I'm a little suspicious if they really apply to realistic situations).  But this wouldn't be too big a problem if Genshi had a fast way to transform its markup to lxml without a serialization step.  (Pyrex even?  Even a Python transformation would be fast, I'm sure)

Anyway, that's what I'm suggesting here.",enhancement,new,major,,General,0.3.3,,helpwanted,ianb@…