Asun Friere, 10.11.2010 06:41:
On Nov 10, 4:11 pm, Stefan Behnel wrote:
What's your interest in parsing a DTD if you're not up to validating XML?
Spitting out boilerplate code.
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A few years back I used a similar technique to write some boiler plate
python code where xml was isomorphically represented on a class per
element basis (which will no doubt offend some people's sense of
generalisation, but is none the less an interesting way to work with
XML).
Give lxml.objectify a try. It doesn't use DTDs, but does what you want.
There are also some other similar tools like gnosis.objectify or Amara. I
never benchmarked them in comparison, but I'd be surprised if
lxml.objectify wasn't the fastest. I'd be interested in seeing the margin,
though, in case anyone wants to give it a try.
It's generally a good idea to state what you want to achieve, rather than
just describing the failure of an intermediate step of one possible path
towards your hidden goal. This list has a huge history of finding shortcuts
that the OPs didn't think of.
Stefan
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