Hey,
I am trying to process XML schema documents using namespace aware SAX handlers.
Currently I am using the default python 2.3 parser:
parser = xml.sax.make_parser() parser.setFeature(xml.sax.handler.feature_namespaces, 1)
At some point I need to parse xml attributes which contain namespace prefixes as their value.
For example:
<xs:element name="hallo" type ="xs:string"/>
The SAX parser does a good job on dealing with qualified names as xml tags, but is there a way I can access the internal sax mapping between prefixes and full namespaces to be able to parse "qualified attribute values"? A simple private dictionary prefix2namespace would be sufficient.
Or is there a way I can tell the parser to do so for me? I tried to keep track of namespace declarations myself in the handler, but if you use the namespace aware handlers like startElementNS() those declarations are omitted from the resulting attribute list of that method.
Parsing the following XML bit:
<mapping xmlns:dwc="http://www.namespacetbd.org/darwin2"; />Does not produce any attribute with startElementNS()
def startElementNS(self, name,qname,attrs):
print "Name:%s QName=%s, Attributes=%s"%(unicode(name),unicode(qname), unicode(["%s=%s"%(k,v) for k,v in attrs.items()]) )
returns
Name:(None, u'mapping') QName=mapping, Attributes=[]
Should I maybe try another parser than the default one (Expat?)
Thanks for any help, Markus
-- Markus Döring Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin Dahlem, Dept. of Biodiversity Informatics http://www.bgbm.org/BioDivInf/ _______________________________________________ XML-SIG maillist - XML-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/xml-sig
