On Jul 27, 9:06 am, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote: > kak...@gmail.com, 27.07.2010 14:43: > > > > > On Jul 27, 8:41 am, Stefan Behnel wrote: > >> kak...@gmail.com, 27.07.2010 14:26: > > >>> On Jul 27, 8:14 am, Stefan Behnel wrote: > >>>> kak...@gmail.com, 27.07.2010 13:58: > > >>>>> On Jul 27, 6:30 am, Stefan Behnel wrote: > >>>>>> kak...@gmail.com, 27.07.2010 12:17: > > >>>>>>> I receive the following different Xml Messages from a socket: > > >>>>>> From a bare socket? TCP? UDP? Or what else? > > >>>>>>> Which is the best way to make a distinction between them so that every > >>>>>>> time my app receives the one or the other, parse them correctly? > > >>>>>> Use an application level protocol? > > >>>>>> From a tcp socket using the twisted framework. > >>>>>> Application level protocol... Such as? > > >>>> Depends on what you *can* use. Do you control the sending side? > > >>>> Note: giving better details helps others in giving better answers. > > >>> Well yes you are right! > >>> I can't control the sending side. > >>> The app i'm writing just accepts incoming xml messages. Like the ones > >>> above. > >>> When i receive a message I parse it and print the information. > >>> I know how to parse both xml messages. > >>> What i want is to distinguish them so that i can trigger the > >>> appropriate parsing method. > > >> Do they come in concatenated or one per connection? > > >> Stefan > > > one per connection. > > Ah, ok, then just parse the message using (c)ElementTree and look at the > name of the first child below the root node (assuming that both messages > were supposed to have the same root node, as you may have wanted to > indicate in your original posting). A dict dispatch to a function or method > will do just fine. > > Stefan
ok that's great, thanks Stefan i'll try it. Antonis -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
