Re: lxml/ElementTree and .tail

2006-11-19 Thread Chas Emerick
On Nov 19, 2006, at 9:55 AM, Fredrik Lundh wrote: And oh by the way, this thread is all about *your* customer's complaining. from what I can tell, it was *your* customer posting FUD about a different library, not my customer asking for help with a specific problem. this is free software;

Re: lxml/ElementTree and .tail

2006-11-18 Thread Chas Emerick
On Nov 18, 2006, at 5:09 AM, Fredrik Lundh wrote: Uche Ogbuji wrote: I certainly have never liked the aspects of the ElementTree API under present discussion. But that's not as important as the fact that I think the above statement is misleading. There has always been a battle in XML

Re: lxml/ElementTree and .tail

2006-11-18 Thread Chas Emerick
On Nov 18, 2006, at 11:29 AM, Fredrik Lundh wrote: Chas Emerick wrote: and keep patting our- selves on the back, while the rest of the world is busy routing around us, switching to well-understood XML subsets or other serialization formats, simpler and more flexible data models, simpler

Re: lxml/ElementTree and .tail

2006-11-18 Thread Chas Emerick
On Nov 18, 2006, at 1:12 PM, Fredrik Lundh wrote: Chas Emerick wrote: Further, the fact that ET/lxml works the way that it does makes me think that there may be some other landmines in the underlying model that we might not have discovered until some days, weeks, etc., had passed so

Re: What do I look for in a shared Python host?

2006-11-18 Thread Chas Emerick
On Nov 18, 2006, at 6:25 PM, dimitri pater wrote: Hi, is there any reason for you wanting to use a shared host? Just asking.. Maybe you could use a VPS as this is not too expensive these days. Of course, it would require more work to set things up. But it's not too hard... (eg using

Re: lxml/ElementTree and .tail

2006-11-16 Thread Chas Emerick
Thanks for the comments and thoughts. I must admit that I have an overwhelming feeling of having just stepped into the middle of a complex, heated conversation without having heard the preamble. (FYI, this reply is only an attempt to help those that come afterwards -- I'm not looking to

Re: lxml/ElementTree and .tail

2006-11-16 Thread Chas Emerick
On Nov 16, 2006, at 7:25 AM, Fredrik Lundh wrote: If I'm wrong, just chalk it up to the fact that this is the first time I've ever looked at the Infoset spec, and I'm simply confused. the Infoset spec *is* the essence of XML; if you don't realize that an XML document is just a serialization

Re: lxml/ElementTree and .tail

2006-11-16 Thread Chas Emerick
On Nov 16, 2006, at 8:12 AM, Fredrik Lundh wrote: Chas Emerick wrote: The principle and the practice diverge significantly in our neck of the woods. The current project involves consuming and making sense of extraordinarily (and typically unnecessarily) complex XHTML. wasn't your

lxml/ElementTree and .tail

2006-11-15 Thread Chas Emerick
ElementTree, and their response to this apparent divergence between the ET DOM API and standard DOM APIs was roughly: that's just the way it is. Comments, thoughts? Chas Emerick Founder, Snowtide Informatics Systems Enterprise-class PDF content extraction [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Python + Java Integration

2006-08-23 Thread Chas Emerick
- sourcecommercial Cheers, Chas Emerick Founder, Snowtide Informatics Systems Enterprise-class PDF content extraction [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://snowtide.com | +1 413.519.6365 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python + Java Integration

2006-08-23 Thread Chas Emerick
On Aug 23, 2006, at 11:50 AM, Ben Sizer wrote:Chas Emerick wrote: There is no doubt that Ruby's success is a concern for anyone who sees it as diminishing Python's status.  One of the reasons for Ruby's success is certainly the notion (originally advocated by Bruce Tate, if I'm not mistaken) that

Re: Python + Java Integration

2006-08-23 Thread Chas Emerick
On Aug 23, 2006, at 12:30 PM, Diez wrote: - ruby has no notion of java-library support. So if anything lures java developers from J2EE-land to rails, its the framework itself. Which, by my standards, is at least met if not excelled by TurboGears and Django. So it's marketing, but of a different

Re: Html or Pdf to Rtf (Linux) with Python

2004-12-15 Thread Chas Emerick
a python package if possible just out of personal preference. Assuming such a thing does not exist, and you are able to introduce a Java component to your project, this would become a non-issue. /blatent_self_promotion Let me know what your questions are. Chas Emerick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Snowtide