At Elemental I've had a lot of success with a simple module that converts between Python data structures and XML. I mentioned this code in a talk at EuroPython this summer and there was quite a bit of interest in it (despite my emphasis on its limitations).
Encouraged by that interest I'm contributing the code to the PSF for possible inclusion in the Python standard library. The first step of contribution is to put it up on the SF tracker: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=305470&aid=1337648&group_id=5470 Since I'm not all that plugged into the Python XML community I'd like to get some feedback on the code (I've subscribed to this list specifically for that purpose). A quick plug is the little test method included at the end of the code: def _test(): class Inner(ElementClass): __element__ = "inner" __attributes__ = {"special": Boolean} __characters__ = "text" class Outer(ElementClass): __element__ = "outer" __attributes__ = {"id": Integer, "name": String} __children__ = {Inner: "inner[]"} sample = '''<outer id="1" name="foo"> <inner special="false">blah, blah</inner> </outer>''' outie = Outer.__parseText__(sample) print (outie.id, outie.name) for innie in outie.inner: print (innie.special, innie.text, str(innie)) print outie The output from running this is: (1, 'foo') (False, 'blah, blah', '<inner special="false">blah, blah</inner>') <outer id="1" name="foo"> <inner special="false">blah, blah</inner> </outer> --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ XML-SIG maillist - XML-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/xml-sig
