glomde wrote:
> i I would like to extend python so that you could create hiercical
> tree structures (XML, HTML etc) easier and that resulting code would be
> more readable than how you write today with packages like elementtree
> and xist.
> I dont want to replace the packages but the packages could be used with
> the
> new operators and the resulting IMHO is much more readable.
>
> The syntax i would like is something like the below:
>
> # Example creating html tree
> '*!*' is an operator that creates an new node,
> '*=*' is an operator that sets an attribute.
>
(snip)
>
> With syntactical sugar:
>
> # build a tree structure
> root = ET.Element("html")
> *!*root:
> *!*head("head"):
> *!*title("title):
> *=*text = "Page Title"
> *!*body("body"):
> *=*bgcolor = "#ffffff"
> *=*text = "Hello, World!"
>
What about using <XXX>data</XXX> for nodes and '=' for attributes ?
Would look like:
<html>
<head>
<title>Page Title</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor='#ffffff'>
Hello World
</body>
</html>
>
> I think that with the added syntax you get better view of the html
> page.
indeed !-)
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