On Dec 31, 3:42 am, "Peter Pei" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One bad design about elementtree is that it has different ways parsing a > string and a file, even worse they return different objects: > 1) When you parse a file, you can simply call parse, which returns a > elementtree, on which you can then apply xpath; > 2) To parse a string (xml section), you can call XML or fromstring, but both > return element instead of elementtree. This alone is bad. To make it worse, > you have to create an elementtree from this element before you can utilize > xpath.
I haven't tried this, but you should be able to wrap your text string so that it looks like a file using the stringio module and pass that to elementtree: http://blog.doughellmann.com/2007/04/pymotw-stringio-and-cstringio.html - Paddy. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
