bridge is a [[Python]] [[XML]] Python XML library project trying to provide a high level and clean interface for manipulating XML documents.

bridge parses will parse the xml document with the specified parser and builds its own in-memory representation of the XML document. The underlying engine resources will then be released.

This means that once loaded into an Element there is no relationship with the underlying used engine. It's just pure Python elements being linked together in a tree.

bridge does not try to be the ultimate XML library. What it offers is simply a way to make your applications independent independant from the preferred XML engine, increasing portability. engine you prefer and therefore make them a little more portable. bridge does not provide the full XML machinery and therefore does not support [[XPath]] XPath nor [[XSLT]]. XSLT. bridge simply loads an XML document and makes it easy to navigate through.