There is a new version of generateDS.py -- version 2.9a. The support for export to lxml/etree seems to be going well. But, see note about work needed on xs:anyAttribute, which is my next task, I suppose. If you try it, please let me know how it goes.
A few hints for those of you who try the to_etree capability: (1) Don't forget to add "etree" to the --export command line option (see help and doc). (2) You can serialize the etree element tree with etree.tostring(element). (3) The lxml function: tostring(element, pretty_print= True) uses 2 spaces per indent level for formatting. If you need, e.g., 4 spaces per indent level, consider using xmllint with the --format command line option, e.g.: $ xmllint --format=" " input.xml On GNU/Debian Linux, xmllint can be installed with apt-get. For MS Windows, there are binaries. See: http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/downloads.html http://www.zlatkovic.com/libxml.en.html And, thanks again to Logan Owen for this idea and for doing most of the work. Here are a few more notes and details from the README: # ========================================================= Version 2.9a (02/21/2013) - Added support for exporting to an Lxml element tree. The element tree can then be serialized to XML, e.g. using Lxml etree.tostring(). This innovation is by Logan Owen, who also did most of the work on it (but I helped some, too). Note that this work is not yet complete; it's still "work in progress"; but it looks very promising. - Added --export command line option. This enables the user to selectively generate export methods for any or all of normal export, export to etree (lxml element tree), or export to literal python code. This will enable users to reduce bulk in their generated files when any or all of these are not needed. The default is "write literal", i.e. the normal export methods that we are used to. Use the --help command line option or read the doc for a description of this option. - Fixed a bug that occurs when a schema has an attributeGroup referenced with a name that includes a namespace prefix but the attributeGroup is defined with a name that does *not* have the namespace prefix. Thanks to Mike Detecca for reporting this and for nudging me in the right direction when I, initially, made the wrong fix. - Added unit test for export to etree. - Various fixes to the to_etree (export to Lxml element tree) capability: (1) fix to preserve names that contain special characters (e.g. "-" and "."); (2) fix to preserve the type attribute (xsi:type) for abstract types that whose type is set explicitly. Round turn (XML --> gDS object tree --> lxml element tree --> gDS --> lxml ...) now seems to work reasonably well, although I'm guessing that there are still bits missing (in particular, support for xs:anyAttribute). # ========================================================= You can find it here: - Python Package Index -- http://pypi.python.org/pypi/generateDS/ - Source Forge -- http://sourceforge.net/projects/generateds/ For those of you who prefer using Mercurial, there is also a Mercurial repository at Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/dkuhlman/generateds If you have comments, suggestions, or problems, please send them along. - Dave -- Dave Kuhlman http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ generateds-users mailing list generateds-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/generateds-users
