Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> writes: > Alain Ketterlin <al...@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>: > >> Technically speaking, this is not a well-formed XML document (it is a >> well-formed external general parsed entity, though). If you have other >> XML processors in your workflow, they will/should reject it. > > Sometimes the XML elements come through a pipe as an endless sequence. > You can still use the wrapping technique and a SAX parser. However, the > other option is to write a tiny XML scanner that identifies the end of > each element. Then, you can cut out the complete XML element and hand it > over to a DOM parser.
Well maybe, even though I see no point in doing so. If the whole transaction is a single document and you need to get sub-elements on the fly, just use the SAX parser: there is no need to use a "tiny XML scanner" (whatever that is), and building a DOM for a part of the document in your SAX handler is easy if needed (for the OP's case a simple state machine would be enough, probably). -- Alain. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
