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24th September 2007 - Link Blog

lxml.cssselect (via) lxml includes an implementation of CSS 3 selectors, which compiles them to XPath expressions. Should be a useful tool for parsing Microformats from Python.

Posted 24th September 2007 at 11:57 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 24th September 2007.

css 234 css3 11 libxml2 6 lxml 7 microformats 32 python 1241 selectors 13 xpath 4

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