import etree from lxml fails with new libxslt-1.1.25

[ph34r]

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "fail.py", line 1, in <module>
    from lxml import etree
ImportError: /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/lxml-2.2.2-py2.6-freebsd-7.0-RELEASE-amd64.egg/lxml/etree.so: Undefined symbol "xsltProcessOneNode"

Works fine with 1.1.24.

[Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven (asmodai)]

One change that happened from 1.1.24 to 1.1.25 is that they made this function static. So it cannot be resolved from external applications or libraries, like lxml. In essence it would mean cleaning up src/lxml/xsltext.pxi, src/lxml/lxml.etree.c, and src/lxml/xslt.pxd and remove all references to (xslt.)xsltProcessOneNode.

[Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven (asmodai)]

Of course, given that lxml actually uses it in src/lxml/xsltext.pxi, that doesn't help.

Given that 1.1.24 also didn't have this call in transform.h it could have never been meant to be made public.

[Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven (asmodai)]

See related emails @ http://<email address hidden>/msg01396.html and http://<email address hidden>/msg01423.html

[scoder (scoder)]

This works again with libxslt 1.1.26 (and hopefully later versions).