There is a pretty simple looking minidom example here:
http://www.postneo.com/projects/pyxml/
Shows you just about all you will need to accomplish the exporting of
the values.You will probably end up doing something very similar to
this, using a bunch of createElement() calls, and setting attributes
on them like:
###
from xml.dom.minidom import Document
doc = Document()
root = doc.createElement("nodes")
doc.appendChild(root)
node = doc.createElement("node1")
node.setAttribute("path", "|foo|bar")
root.appendChild(node)
attr = doc.createElement("attrib")
attr.setAttribute("name", "tx")
attr.setAttribute("type", "float")
val = doc.createTextNode("10.5")
attr.appendChild(val)
node.appendChild(attr)
attr = doc.createElement("attrib")
attr.setAttribute("name", "visibility")
attr.setAttribute("type", "int")
val = doc.createTextNode("0")
attr.appendChild(val)
node.appendChild(attr)
print doc.toprettyxml(indent=" ")
###
Which will create:
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<nodes>
<node1 path="|foo|bar">
<attrib name="tx" type="float">
10.5
</attrib>
<attrib name="visibility" type="int">
0
</attrib>
</node1>
</nodes>
There are even packages our there to help you automatically serialize
python objects to xml. But honestly though, if you aren't bound to
XML, then JSON would be a whole lot better for storing data types.
XML doesn't natively support any concept of data types, which means
you have to parse them back out to the correct type yourself, based on
the xml tags, or by doing an eval on them to test the types. JSON
would simple be like this:
import json
d = {
'|foo|bar': {
'tx': 10.5,
'visibility': 0
}
}
j = json.dumps(d, indent=4)
print j
And looks like:
{
"|foo|bar": {
"visibility": 0,
"tx": 10.5
}
}
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 6:03 AM, 5inch <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> has anyone of you experience with
> Python´s xml.dom.minidom and Maya.
>
> I want to export some Maya Attributes (Int,String,Float)
> via Python in a XML-File.
> I didn´t find any good howTo/Tutorial on the Web which explains me all the
> syntax in a
> Dummie-fashion-way.
>
> Thanks for any Links/help,
>
> Cheers, 5inch
>
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