Feb-09-2020, 07:10 PM
In case anyone is interested: In the end I managed to do everything with lxml, and I'm very happy with the results. Python is really nice.
But I still think the lack of the function "getLang()" is a problem. When I looked closer att my particular case I found that I could get by nicely without it, but that was mostly just luck. The Perl module that does the same thing with libxml2 has that function (called "xmlLang()") and it really should be implemented in lxml as well. Document oriented XML files with multi-lingual text often need that function.
But I still think the lack of the function "getLang()" is a problem. When I looked closer att my particular case I found that I could get by nicely without it, but that was mostly just luck. The Perl module that does the same thing with libxml2 has that function (called "xmlLang()") and it really should be implemented in lxml as well. Document oriented XML files with multi-lingual text often need that function.