Re: Where is the xml.dom.ext package in current pythondistributions? .ext documentation?
"Martin v. Löwis" <[email protected]>
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Anastasios Hatzis schrieb: > Is the xml.dom entirely -with all subpackages/modules- available under > the same package in Python? Not at all. Not with all subpackages; primarily, just minidom is included (and pulldom and the DOM builder). > # (1) for reading/parsing data from XML: > from xml.dom.ext.reader import Sax2 Use xml.dom.minidom.parse instead. > # (2) for building/manipulating DOM tree: > from xml.dom.DOMImplementation import implementation Use xml.dom.minidom instead. If you need a DOMImplementation, use xml.dom.getDOMImplementation(). If you need to create nodes and such, use the relevant create* factory method on the document. > # (3) for serializing data to XML: > from xml.dom.ext import PrettyPrint Use toxml/toprettyxml instead. > in order to get a DOM tree from the XML file which I can than walk > through - I don't care the events... but I thought SAX is > event-driven?!? However, I need to switch to a tree-based XML parser > alternative on Python distribution. Correct. What you currently uses is called a "DOM builder" (i.e. an algorithm that creates a DOM tree) out of SAX2 events. So it consumes SAX events and produces a DOM tree. Python comes with a different such builder out of the box. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ XML-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/xml-sig