How to get lxml working under IronPython?

Question

I need to port some code that relies heavily on lxml from a CPython application to IronPython.

lxml is very Pythonic and I would like to keep using it under IronPython, but it depends on libxslt and libxml2, which are C extensions.

Does anyone know of a workaround to allow lxml under IronPython or a version of lxml that doesn't have those C-extension dependencies?

Answer 1

You might check out IronClad, which is an open source project intended to make C Extensions for Python available in IronPython.