Hi, Stuart McGraw wrote: > I am probably mising something elementary (I am new > to both xml and lxml), but I am having problems figuring > out how to get comments when using lxml's iterparse(). > When I parse xml with parse() and iterate though the > result, I get the comments. But when I try to do the > same thing (approximately I think) with iterparse, > I don't see any comments.
While the comments end up in the tree that iterparse generates, they do not show up in the events. Now that you mention it, I actually think that should change. There should be events "comment" and "pi" that yield them if requested. > I was using the standard Python ElementTree but my > understanding is that it doesn't save comments at all. ElementTree strips comments in the parser, that's right. > The real file is ~50MB and has about 1M nodes under the > root so I have to use iterparse and I also have to process > comments, so I would really appreciate a clue about how > to do it. Thanks. Have you tried the parser target interface? It's a SAX-like interface that uses callbacks. http://codespeak.net/lxml/parsing.html#the-target-parser-interface http://effbot.org/elementtree/elementtree-xmlparser.htm#the-target-interface Stefan _______________________________________________ XML-SIG maillist - XML-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/xml-sig
