On Sep 25, 12:38 am, Dan Stromberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Say I want to take an existing XML document, and change the value="9997" > and value="9998" to two different numbers, without changing any of the > rest of the document - not even changing comments or indentation, if > avoidable. > > What's the best way of doing it in python? > > <bean id="cs" class="c.d.q.s.C"> > <property name="p" value="9997"/> > <property name="mP" value="9998"/> > <property name="g" value="cs"/> > <property name="e" value="t"/> > </bean> > > My .xml file is full of such beans. > > I've played around with minidom a little in the past, and I'm targetting > python 2.5.1. > > Thanks!
With ElementTree (from xml.etree import ElementTree) and the 'replace' and 'sub' functions here: http://gflanagan.net/site/python/utils/elementfilter/elementfilter.py (Some improvements to ElementTree: http://effbot.org/zone/elementtree-13-intro.htm ) Gerard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
