LXML and XSL document() Function

Question

Hi i got the following files :

merge.py:

from lxml import etree

xml_input = etree.XML(open(\'a.xml\', \'r\').read())
xslt_root = etree.XML(open(\'me         


        

Answer 1

Why not simply do this?

from lxml import etree

xml_input = etree.parse("a.xml")
xslt_root = etree.parse("merge.xsl")
transform = etree.XSLT(xslt_root)
print str(transform(xml_input))

More straightforward, no need for a resolver.