I would suggest that you start with Python's own xml.etree:
import xml.etree.cElementTree as ET
tree = ET.ElementTree(file='document.xml')
root = tree.getroot()
for child in root:
print(child.tag, child.attrib)
On Tuesday, September 17, 2013 12:45:22 PM UTC+1, Nathann Cohen wrote:
>
> Helloooooooo everybody !
>
> We have in Sage an interface with ISGCI [1], and most of the code it
> contains amounts to parsing a xml file, i.e. the db it gives access to. The
> code is (very) ugly, and a friend of mine told me that I should use some
> Python library to "objectify" this XML file, so that we only need work with
> dictionaries (and not with the XML file) in the code.
>
> It looks like lxml would do the job, and there are others like gnosis or
> amara that seem to do the same kind of things.
>
> Did you ever use any of those, and would you think it a good idea to add
> them into Sage ? It would definitely simplify this code, at least.. :-)
>
> By the way, this interface is being patched by #14396, and it would be
> great if somebody was willing to give it a review... The db's author has
> been very kind with us, and the improvements I promised him are not
> available in Sage yet ^^;
>
> Have fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun :-)
>
> Nathann
>
> [1] http://graphclasses.org/
>
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