litlxml: A source extractor for lightweight literate programming |  |
litlxml: A source extractor for lightweight literate programming | |
The litlxml program is worth study as an example not only of literate programming but also of how easy it is to process XML files in Python.
This program has gone through several rewrites as techniques for XML processing in Python have evolved.
The current version uses the lxml package.
For more details, see the Python processing with lxml. This package yields much higher
performance than earlier approaches.
This program was written using the Cleanroom or zero-defect methodology. The best introduction to the method is given in Stavely, Allan M., Toward Zero-defect Programming, Addison-Wesley, 1999, ISBN 0-201-38595-3. Also see the author's Cleanroom pages for a discussion of methods and dozens of examples