Re: libxml2 python error messages

On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 12:55:57PM +0200, Jean-Baptiste Quenot wrote:
> * Daniel Veillard:
> 
> > On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 11:52:44PM +0200, Jean-Baptiste Quenot wrote:
> >
> > > I'm using intensively  the Python bindings for  libxml2 and libxslt.
> > > The major problem I encounter is  that error messages are written to
> > > stdout while I'm  running in CGI mode: it breaks  the HTTP response.
> > > How could  I suppress output  of errors  in stdout?  I  noticed that
> > > changing the
> >
> >   What  kind of  error message. Can  you chexk  the examples,  you can
> > redirrect the error messages to your own handler.
> 
> It's okay now.  I had to provide  one also for libxslt to get it working
> though.  Is  it normal behaviour?  I  have to register the  callback for
> both libraries  to handle  error messages (even  for errors  coming from
> libxml2 only).
> 
> > > Also, it would  be great to have a  function like saveResultToString
> > > in libxslt  because serialize()  is e.g. not  able to  produce angle
> > > brackets in text nodes.
> >
> >   Which is perfectly normal, that's  not possible in XML ! Serializing
> > is  saving  the result  to  a  string,  following  the XML  (or  HTML)
> > conventions, of course ...
> 
> I mean saving the result of the XSL transformation to a string, but IIRC
> it  is on  your TODO  list.  

You need to save the result of an XSL transformation to a python string?
There _is_ a function 'saveResultToString' in the libxslt python bindings
(at least there _should_ be, i've written one and AFAIK Daniel applied the
patches. There should be even a small sample/testcase in $LIBXSLT/python/tests/basic.py).

Ralf Mattes