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Would it be possible to interface this with other languages? e.g. Go, Ruby, Java, or is there a hard dependency on Python?

This has a hard dependency on libxml2. If your language of choice has a libxml2 based tree, it can be ported to that.

Basically your language needs an equivalent of lxml

Would also be nice to see a performance comparison with other libraries, e.g. Go's html.Parse