On Monday, April 25, 2016 at 12:47:14 PM UTC+5:30, Jussi Piitulainen wrote: > harirammano...@gmail.com writes: > > > Hi Jussi, > > > > i have seen you have written a definition to fulfill the requirement, > > can we do this same thing using xml parser, as i have failed to > > implement the thing using xml parser of python if the file is having > > the content as below... > > > > <!DOCTYPE web-app > > PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN" > > "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd";> > > > > <web-app> > > > > and entire thing works if it has as below: > > <!DOCTYPE web-app > > <web-app> > > > > what i observe is xml tree parsing is not working if http tags are > > there in between web-app... > > Do you get an error message? > > My guess is that the parser needs the DTD but cannot access it. There > appears to be a DTD at that address, http://java.sun.com/... (it > redirects to Oracle, who bought Sun a while ago), but something might > prevent the parser from accessing it by default. If so, the details > depend on what parser you are trying to use. It may be possible to save > that DTD as a local file and point the parser to that. > > Your problem is morphing rather wildly. A previous version had namespace > declarations but no DTD or XSD if I remember right. The initial version > wasn't XML at all. > > If you post (1) an actual, minimal document, (2) the actual Python > commands that fail to parse it, and (3) the error message you get, > someone will be able to help you. The content of the document need not > be more than "hello, world" level. The DOCTYPE declaration and the > outermost tags with all their attributes and namespace declarations, if > any, are important.
Hi Jussi, Here is an input file...sample.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <web-app xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee"; xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_1.xsd"; version="3.1"> <servlet> <servlet-name>controller</servlet-name> <servlet-class>com.mycompany.mypackage.ControllerServlet</servlet-class> <init-param> <param-name>listOrders</param-name> <param-value>com.mycompany.myactions.ListOrdersAction</param-value> </init-param> <init-param> <param-name>saveCustomer</param-name> <param-value>com.mycompany.myactions.SaveCustomerAction</param-value> </init-param> <load-on-startup>5</load-on-startup> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>graph</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/graph</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> <session-config> <session-timeout>30</session-timeout> </session-config> </web-app> -------------------------------- Here is the code: import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET ET.register_namespace("", "http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee";) tree = ET.parse('sample.xml') root = tree.getroot() for servlet in root.findall('servlet'): servletname = servlet.find('servlet-name').text if servletname == "controller": root.remove(servlet) tree.write('output.xml') This will work if <web-app> </web-app> doesnt have below... xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee"; xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_1.xsd"; -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
