[glomde] > 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.
> Any comments? Yes: it's ugly and unnecessary. Why would you want to change the language syntax just to make it easier to express markup directly in program code? Javascript just made that mistake with E4X: IMHO, it makes for some of the ugliest code. E4X reminds me of that Microsoft b*stardisation, XML Data Islands. http://www.w3schools.com/e4x/e4x_howto.asp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E4X For a nice pythonic solution to representing markup directly in python code, you should check out stan. http://divmod.org/users/exarkun/nevow-api/public/nevow.stan-module.html Here's a nice stan example, taken from Kieran Holland's tutorial http://www.kieranholland.com/code/documentation/nevow-stan/ aDocument = tags.html[ tags.head[ tags.title["Hello, world!"] ], tags.body[ tags.h1[ "This is a complete XHTML document modeled in Stan." ], tags.p[ "This text is inside a paragraph tag." ], tags.div(style="color: blue; width: 200px; background-color: yellow;") [ "And this is a coloured div." ] ] ] That looks nice and simple, and no need to destroy the elegance of python to do it. regards, -- alan kennedy ------------------------------------------------------ email alan: http://xhaus.com/contact/alan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
