On May 10, 10:23 am, rustom <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 10, 9:49 pm, Steve Howell <showel...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > On May 10, 9:10 am, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > I am trying to write a recursive filter to remove whitespace-only
> > > nodes for minidom.
> > > The code is below.
>
> > > Strangely it deletes some whitespace nodes and leaves some.
> > > If I keep calling it -- like so: fws(fws(fws(doc))) then at some
> > > stage all the ws nodes disappear
>
> > > Does anybody have a clue?
>
> > > from xml.dom.minidom import parse
>
> > > #The input to fws is the output of parse("something.xml")
>
> > > def fws(ele):
> > > """ filter white space (recursive)"""
>
> > > for c in ele.childNodes:
> > > if isWsNode(c):
> > > ele.removeChild(c)
> > > #c.unlink() Makes no diff whether this is there or not
> > > elif c.nodeType == ele.ELEMENT_NODE:
> > > fws(c)
>
> > > def isWsNode(ele):
> > > return (ele.nodeType == ele.TEXT_NODE and not ele.data.strip())
>
> > I would avoid doing things like delete/remove in a loop. Instead
> > build a list of things to delete.
>
> Yeah I know. I would write the whole damn thing functionally if I knew
> how. But cant figure out the API.
> I actually started out to write a (haskell-style) copy out the whole
> tree minus the unwanted nodes but could not figure it out
You can use list comprehensions for a more functional style.
Instead of deleting the unwanted nodes in place, try to create new
lists of just the wanted results.
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