Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> here's one way to do it:
>
> import cElementTree as ET
>
> tree = ET.XML("""
> <object>
> <name>ball</name>
> <desc>
> <color>red</color>
> <size>large</size>
> </desc>
> </object>
> """)
>
> MAP = {
> "object": ("dl", "object"),
> "name": ("dt", "name"),
> "desc": ("ul", None),
> "color": ("li", "color"),
> "size": ("li", "size"),
> }
>
> for elem in tree.getiterator():
> elem.tag, klass = MAP[elem.tag]
> if klass:
> elem.set("class", klass)
>
> print ET.tostring(tree)
Thanks a *LOT!* :-)
This is what I needed. Now I can play with finding the best data
structure along with what elements to translate each tag to.
This is for a rewrite of PyDoc.py. I'm hoping it will be as easy to
write to other formats from the XML as it is to html.
Cheers,
Ron
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