[issue11368] xml.etree.ElementTree.Element should have a reference to parent

2011-03-03 Thread Georg Brandl
Changes by Georg Brandl : -- assignee: -> docs@python components: +Documentation -XML nosy: +docs@python ___ Python tracker ___ ___ P

[issue11368] xml.etree.ElementTree.Element should have a reference to parent

2011-03-02 Thread Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: Anatoly, do you find the suggestions in http://effbot.org/zone/element.htm#accessing-parents useful to you? If so, this paragraph could be copied into the documentation. -- nosy: +amaury.forgeotdarc ___ Pyth

[issue11368] xml.etree.ElementTree.Element should have a reference to parent

2011-03-02 Thread anatoly techtonik
anatoly techtonik added the comment: That's not a good reason to close report. Such limitations of xml.etree.ElementTree should be at least documented properlt. And even documented it is still a valid feature request for standard library. Not for current implementation, but perhaps for Python

[issue11368] xml.etree.ElementTree.Element should have a reference to parent

2011-03-01 Thread Ned Deily
Ned Deily added the comment: ElementTree Element has no parent link by design. See the "Accessing Parents" topic (http://effbot.org/zone/element.htm) in the supplemental documentation for ElementTree linked from the Python Standard Library doc set (http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/xml.etr

[issue11368] xml.etree.ElementTree.Element should have a reference to parent

2011-03-01 Thread anatoly techtonik
New submission from anatoly techtonik : There is no way to get parent element from xml.etree.ElementTree.Element. This is one of the essential functions for XML support. -- components: XML messages: 129848 nosy: techtonik priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: xml.etree.E