Greg Lindstrom wrote: > Hello- > I am in the process of creating an XML document from information > stored in our database. One of my colleagues will use the record to > format our information (health care claims) into all sorts of forms, > reports, etc. He is partial to PHP5 but I like Python and would like > to know if there is something that would read in my XML file and > format it in a similar manner to "pretty print" so I can verify the > correct information is being pulled. I have looked into the XML > documentation and, to be honest, I am overwhelmed with the choices; > SAX, DOM, XPath, 4Suite, and more. Though I've been coding full time > for 25 years, I'm new to XML and could use some pointers. > > My immediate concern is to read in an XML stream from a file and > format it with indentation so that I can read and verify the data > against out database. My long term concern is what tool(s) do you > think would give the biggest return against the effort required to > learn them? The claim files I am generating will be less than a meg > each, if that matters. > > Thanks! > --greg
Try 4Suite / Amara: http://uche.ogbuji.net/uche.ogbuji.net/tech/4suite/amara/ (I downloaded the allinone package) >>> from Ft.Xml import Parse >>> from Ft.Xml.Domlette import PrettyPrint >>> xmlfile = open('c:/test.xml') >>> xml = "".join(xmlfile.readlines()) >>> xml '<xml><level1><level2>some text<level3>level 3</level3></level2>some other text</level1><another>Hi!<empty /></another></xml>\n' >>> doc = Parse(xml) >>> PrettyPrint(doc) <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xml> <level1> <level2>some text<level3>level 3</level3> </level2>some other text</level1> <another>Hi!<empty/> </another> </xml> It isn't a great representation... Perhaps my xml was malformed. Try it yourself to see if it works for you. HTH! Ismael _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
