Sakcee wrote: > I want to build a simple validator for rss2 feeds, that checks basic > structure and reports channels , items , and their attributes etc. > > I have been reading Mark Pilgrims articles on xml.com, diveintopython > and someother stuff on sgmllib, sax.handlers and content handlers, > xml.dom.minidom > > why is all of this necessary, what is the difference between all these > libraries, it seems to me that I can parse the rss2 feed with any of > these libraries.!! ? > > what is the difference between namespaces and non-namspaces functions > in sax.handlers.contenthandler , is the namespace defined like domain > names on some website?
Based on this question, I tend to think you might want to leave the XML processing to someone else's code. How about using Pilgrim's feedparser? http://feedparser.org/ -- Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc. http://uche.ogbuji.net http://fourthought.com http://copia.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org Articles: http://uche.ogbuji.net/tech/publications/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
