On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:19 AM, aha <aquil.abdul...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello All, > I've been charged with developing an XML configuration file format, > for one of the applications that my company develops. (Yes, I know it > would have been easier to just use the configuration file format as > described in RFC 822) While I am finally comfortable with the XML > description that we've agreed upon; I am still trying to determine the > best XML parser API to use. I would love to use XPATH, however I face > the following restriction: > > The Python scripts that perform the parsing of the XML configuration > file must be compatible with Python Versions 2.2-present. > > This means that any functionality that I use needs to be compatible > with Python 2.2. > > I started with the DOM API in xml.dom.minidom and I thought that it > might be the best way to go, but then I ran across the Recipes of Wai > Yip Tung > > http://code.activestate.com/recipes/534109/ > > > and John Bair, Christoph Dietze from the second edition of the Python > cookbook. > > Wai's implementation uses thes SAX parser and John and Christoph's > implementation uses Expat API. > > In the end what I really want is to transform the XML > > <config> > <component> > <setting></setting> > </component> > </config> > > into an object that looks like > > config.component.setting or a map config[component][setting]. > > Another restriction is that I don't want to have to ship additional > modules. > > Does anyone have any advice, comments, or HELP???
ElementTree is in the std lib for Python 2.5+ and has a fairly Pythonic API compared to SAX/DOM. Docs for it: http://docs.python.org/library/xml.etree.elementtree.html Cheers, Chris -- Follow the path of the Iguana... http://rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
