Oh right, why didn't I think of that. =) Many thanks.
Timothy On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 1:45 AM, Robert Bossy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Timothy Wu wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am using xml.sax.handler.ContentHandler to parse some simple xml. > > > > I want to detect be able to parse the content of this tag embedded in > > the XML. > > <Id>174</Id> > > > > > > Is the proper way of doing so involving finding the "Id" tag > > from startElement(), setting flag when seeing one, and in characters(), > > when seeing that flag set, save the content? > > > > What if multiple tags of the same name are nested at different levels > > > > and I want to differentiate them? I would be setting a flag for each > level. > > I can imagine things get pretty messy when flags are all around. > > > Hi, > > You could have a list of all opened elements from the root to the > innermost. To keep such a list, you append the name of the element to > this stack at the end of startElement() and pop it off at the end of > endElement(). > > In this way you have acces to the path of the current parser position. > In order to differentiate between character data in Id and in Id/Id, you > just have to iterate at the last elements of the list. > > Cheers, > RB > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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