On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Chris Evich <cev...@redhat.com> wrote: > All, > > I've got a need to port a bunch of libvirt tests that do a lot of xml > manipulation. Rather then just using xml.dom.minidom ad-hoc, I thought > a medium-level utility module might be generally useful elsewhere too. > Some examples to illustrate further: > > A class or set of functions that is mindful of structure but content naive: > + Attribute search, attribute search and replace, add/delete. > + Element search, attribute search and replace, add/delete. > > Another set that's value sensitive, but structure naive: > + Template & list based dict2xml and xml2dict > + others? > > I looked around our codebase, but it seems what little xml code exists, > is ad-hoc. Does the above sound generally useful? If not, should I
It does, I like the idea of having an utility library to concentrate operations with xml. > confine it more toward virt in general, or keep it all libvirt specific? > Any ideas for other classes/functions you'd like to see? Wrappers around the xml module that do work with py 2.4 and above, and do the heavy lifting for stuff you have already mentioned: + Attribute search, attribute search and replace, add/delete. + Element search, attribute search and replace, add/delete. + Transform json/dict data to xml -- Lucas _______________________________________________ Autotest mailing list Autotest@test.kernel.org http://test.kernel.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/autotest
