Re: normalize in PyXML version hell (was: ...)

Harlan writes:

> I'm pretty sure I'm running Python-2.0 and PyXML-0.6.1.
> Not positive on the last bit, though.  Does python have a
> way to query/display the version number of a package?

(sys.version is the version of your Python interpreter;
don't know of a general way to get at a sub-package
version...)

OK, minor investigation suggests that the 'normalize' method
for a DOM doc was introduced in 0.6.2 (sigh).  So try
replacing the normalize line with

        try:
            root_elem.normalize()
        except AttributeError:
            # normalize was only introduced in PyXML 0.6.2, so
            # maybe we can get by without it...
            pass

Now, 'normalize' is the method that stitches together all
adjacent Text nodes in a DOM.  Here's hoping the
split-up-but-adjacent Text nodes case doesn't arise...

Thanks for keeping on the case; I've adjusted the
documentation, which I hope to check in tonight.

See how that goes...

Will