Hi, Stuart McGraw wrote: >> 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. > > That would be ideal, from my perspective. It also seems > more consistent with the other interfaces (parse, parse target, > etc)
Implemented on the trunk, will be in lxml 2.1. >> Have you tried the parser target interface? > I am having trouble getting it to work. Specifically, the test > code below produces the output I expected when run with > cElementTree, but with lxml, it is missing "end" callbacks, > the second "start(entry) " callback, and the resolved entity > text. Am I doing something wrong? > > Test code: > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > #import xml.etree.cElementTree as ET > import lxml.etree as ET > from cStringIO import StringIO > > # XML data... > #============================================= > xmltxt = \ > '''<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <!-- Rev 1.06 > --> > <!DOCTYPE Test [ > <!ELEMENT Test (entry*)> > <!ELEMENT entry (#PCDATA)> > <!-- Description of <entry> element. > --> > <!ENTITY ex "an existential entity"> > ]> > <!-- File created: 2008-02-27 --> > <Test> > <!-- Chronosynclastic Infindibulum Listing --> > <entry>text 1 is &ex;</entry> > <!-- Deleted: A1500477 --> > <entry>text 2</entry> > </Test>''' > #============================================= > > print '\nTargetParser:\n-------------' > > try: XMLParser = ET.XMLParser > except AttributeError: XMLParser = ET.XMLTreeBuilder > > class EchoTarget: > def comment(self, tag): > print "comment", tag > def start(self, tag, attrib): > print "start", tag, attrib > def end(self, tag): > print "end", tag > def data(self, data): > print "data", repr(data) > def close(self): > print "close" > return "closed!" > > parser = XMLParser( target = EchoTarget()) > result = ET.parse( StringIO (xmltxt), parser) I can reproduce that. Seems to require an entity reference in the data, though. I'll look into it. Stefan _______________________________________________ XML-SIG maillist - XML-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/xml-sig
