Re: new pkg metadata generating scripts

On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 08:43:50AM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> >   Hum, gzip support is included directly, do
> >     doc.setDocCompressMode(9)
> >     doc.saveFile(filename)
> > that should work.
> 
> couple of small problems:
> 1. how do I specify an encoding or pretty-printing of the xml

libxml2.py around line 2970

    def saveFile(self, filename):
        """Dump an XML document to a file. Will use compression if
           compiled in and enabled. If @filename is "-" the stdout
           file is used. """
        ret = libxml2mod.xmlSaveFile(filename, self._o)
        return ret
                                                                                
    def saveFileEnc(self, filename, encoding):
        """Dump an XML document, converting it to the given encoding """
        ret = libxml2mod.xmlSaveFileEnc(filename, self._o, encoding)
        return ret

    def saveFormatFile(self, filename, format):
        """Dump an XML document to a file. Will use compression if
           compiled in and enabled. If @filename is "-" the stdout
           file is used. If @format is set then the document will be
           indented on output. Note that @format = 1 provide node
           indenting only if xmlIndentTreeOutput = 1 or
           xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) was called """
        ret = libxml2mod.xmlSaveFormatFile(filename, self._o, format)
        return ret
                                                                                
    def saveFormatFileEnc(self, filename, encoding, format):
        """Dump an XML document to a file or an URL. """
        ret = libxml2mod.xmlSaveFormatFileEnc(filename, self._o, encoding, format)
        return ret


> 2. any plans on adding bzip2 support now that module is included in
> python 2.3?

  The support has to be handled at the C library level. the python
bindings are just a think layer on top of it. Adding at the C library
level is vastly more complex, especially since it require a new or
a change in the API.

> >   Maybe gzipOpen() returned object are not detected as file object
> > by libxml2 python wrappers. Extract a small example and post it to
> > [email protected] or onto gnome bugzilla so I will have a look,
> 
> I will, thanks.

  Okay,

Daniel

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