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-cssselect2: CSS selectors for Python ElementTree
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+cssselect2: unmaintained and incomplete experiments with CSS selectors for Python
+=================================================================================
 
-cssselect2 is a straightforward implementation of `CSS3 Selectors`_ for
-`ElementTree`_-compatible documents (including cElementTree, lxml_, etc.)
-Unlike cssselect_, it does not translate selectors to XPath_
-and therefore does not have all the correctness corner cases
-that are hard or impossible to fix in cssselect.
+`cssselect`_ implements `CSS Selectors`_ by converting them to XPath_,
+and then relying on lxml_’s XPath implementation.
 
-.. _ElementTree: http://docs.python.org/3/library/xml.etree.elementtree.html
-.. _CSS3 Selectors: http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/REC-css3-selectors-20110929/
-.. _lxml: http://lxml.de/
-.. _cssselect: http://packages.python.org/cssselect/
-.. _XPath: http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath/
+At first, converting simple selectors seems easy enough.
+But the two languages are different enough that I’m not even convinced that
+some more complex selectors even have a correct translation.
+See `issue 12`_ for an example.
+
+As such, I believe the XPath approach is fundamentally flawed.
+So I started in this repository to implement Selectors without XPath,
+by traversing a document tree directly.
+It mostly works, but I got stuck on `deciding what kind of tree to support`_.
 
+Since then, I’ve moved on to other things and I’m not very interested in pushing this further.
+Please consider this project abandonned.
+I will not publish it on PyPI or accept contributions.
 
-Quick facts:
+Feel free to use the code per the license if you find it useful.
+If you make a proper library out of it I’m willing to give away the `cssselect2` name on PyPI
+(file an issue on this repository to let me know).
 
-* Free software: BSD licensed
-* Compatible with Python 2.6+ and 3.2+
-* Source, issues and pull requests `on Github
-  <https://github.com/SimonSapin/cssselect2/>`_
-* Releases `on PyPI <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/cssselect2>`_
-* Install with ``pip install cssselect2``
+.. _cssselect: https://github.com/scrapy/cssselect
+.. _CSS Selectors: https://drafts.csswg.org/selectors/
+.. _XPath: http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath/
+.. _lxml: http://lxml.de/
+.. _issue 12: https://github.com/scrapy/cssselect/issues/12
+.. _deciding what kind of tree to support: https://github.com/SimonSapin/cssselect2/issues/1