Re: ARK CVS problem?

Harlan reports:

> The latest CVS ARK gives me: [snip
> 
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.0/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/pulldom.py", line 171, in getEvent
>     buf=self.stream.read(self.bufsize)
> AttributeError: read

The problem is we didn't fold anything back into the sources
from the last time you asked this question :-(  I sent the
message below, but my recollection is that we settled on
something more drastic; do you have that?

Anyway, it's our old friend python-version-vs-PyXML-version.
If you can duplicate what you did to fix it last time, could
you send me your xmlfile.py thereafter?

Will

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Sigh.  Well, there comes a time when you have to get out a
big stick and hit it.  See if dropping this block into
xmlfile.py does the trick:

        try: # should work for 2.0 with PyXML 0.6.2+
            import xml.dom.minidom
            doc  = xml.dom.minidom.parse(filename)
            root_elem = doc.documentElement
            if not hasattr(root_elem,'normalize'):
                # oops... smell 0.6.1 or something....
                raise 'bad dom'
        except ImportError:
            # this is probably something like Python 1.5.2/1.6
            # with PyXML 0.5.5.1.  Or *something*.
            import xml.dom.core
            import xml.dom.utils
            doc  = xml.dom.utils.FileReader().readFile(filename)
            root_elem = doc.documentElement
        except 'bad dom':
            # this ought to be Python 2.0 with PyXML 0.6.1 or
	    # thereabouts.
            import xml.dom.ext.reader.Sax
            thing_file = open(filename)
            doc  = xml.dom.ext.reader.Sax.FromXmlStream(thing_file)
            root_elem = doc.documentElement
	    thing_file.close() # because we're about to reopen it

	root_elem.normalize()

Let me know how you get on.