Lxml is a new Python binding for libxml2 and libxslt, completely independent from existing Python bindings. Its aim:

* Pythonic API.
* Documented.
* Use Python unicode strings in API.
* Safe (no segfaults).
* No manual memory management!
lxml aims to provide a Pythonic API by following as much as possible the ElementTree API, trying to avoid inventing too many new APIs, or the user's having to learn new things -- XML is complicated enough.