Re: lxml/ElementTree and .tail

2006-11-19 Thread Chas Emerick
On Nov 19, 2006, at 9:55 AM, Fredrik Lundh wrote: >> And oh by the way, this thread is all about *your* customer's >> complaining. > > from what I can tell, it was *your* customer posting FUD about a > different library, not my customer asking for help with a specific > problem. this is free soft

Re: What do I look for in a shared Python host?

2006-11-18 Thread Chas Emerick
On Nov 18, 2006, at 6:25 PM, dimitri pater wrote: > Hi, > is there any reason for you wanting to use a shared host? Just > asking.. > Maybe you could use a VPS as this is not too expensive these days. > Of course, it would require more work to set things up. But it's > not too hard... (eg us

Re: lxml/ElementTree and .tail

2006-11-18 Thread Chas Emerick
On Nov 18, 2006, at 1:12 PM, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Chas Emerick wrote: > >> Further, the fact that ET/lxml works the way that it does makes me >> think that there may be some other landmines in the underlying model >> that we might not have discovered until some days, we

Re: lxml/ElementTree and .tail

2006-11-18 Thread Chas Emerick
On Nov 18, 2006, at 11:29 AM, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Chas Emerick wrote: > >>> and keep patting our- >>> selves on the back, while the rest of the world is busy routing >>> around >>> us, switching to well-understood XML subsets or other serializat

Re: lxml/ElementTree and .tail

2006-11-18 Thread Chas Emerick
On Nov 18, 2006, at 5:09 AM, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Uche Ogbuji wrote: > >> I certainly have never liked the aspects of the ElementTree API under >> present discussion. But that's not as important as the fact that I >> think the above statement is misleading. There has always been a >> battle i

Re: lxml/ElementTree and .tail

2006-11-16 Thread Chas Emerick
On Nov 16, 2006, at 8:12 AM, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Chas Emerick wrote: > >> The principle and the practice diverge significantly in our neck of >> the woods. The current project involves consuming and making sense >> of extraordinarily (and typically unnecessarily) c

Re: lxml/ElementTree and .tail

2006-11-16 Thread Chas Emerick
On Nov 16, 2006, at 7:25 AM, Fredrik Lundh wrote: >> If I'm wrong, just chalk it up to the fact that this is the first >> time I've ever looked at the Infoset spec, and I'm simply confused. > > the Infoset spec *is* the essence of XML; if you don't realize that an > XML document is just a serializ

Re: lxml/ElementTree and .tail

2006-11-16 Thread Chas Emerick
Thanks for the comments and thoughts. I must admit that I have an overwhelming feeling of having just stepped into the middle of a complex, heated conversation without having heard the preamble. (FYI, this reply is only an attempt to help those that come afterwards -- I'm not looking to adv

lxml/ElementTree and .tail

2006-11-15 Thread Chas Emerick
uld have appended 's tail text to the text of (or perhaps to the tail text of 's closest preceding sibling) -- something that I think I'm going to have to do in order to continue using lxml / ElementTree. I ran this issue past a few people I know who've worked with an

Re: Python + Java Integration

2006-08-23 Thread Chas Emerick
On Aug 23, 2006, at 12:30 PM, Diez wrote: - ruby has no notion of java-library support. So if anything lures java developers from J2EE-land to rails, its the framework itself. Which, by my standards, is at least met if not excelled by TurboGears and Django. So it's marketing, but of a different kin

Re: Python + Java Integration

2006-08-23 Thread Chas Emerick
On Aug 23, 2006, at 11:50 AM, Ben Sizer wrote:Chas Emerick wrote: There is no doubt that Ruby's success is a concern for anyone who sees it as diminishing Python's status.  One of the reasons for Ruby's success is certainly the notion (originally advocated by Bruce Tate, if I'm not mistaken) that i

Python + Java Integration

2006-08-23 Thread Chas Emerick
make it all happen (watch out for this URL wrapping): http://blog.snowtide.com/2006/08/21/working-together-pythonjava-open- sourcecommercial Cheers, Chas Emerick Founder, Snowtide Informatics Systems Enterprise-class PDF content extraction [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://snowtide.com | +1 413.519.6365 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Html or Pdf to Rtf (Linux) with Python

2004-12-15 Thread Chas Emerick
o use a python package if possible just out of personal preference. Assuming such a thing does not exist, and you are able to introduce a Java component to your project, this would become a non-issue. Let me know what your questions are. Chas Emerick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Snowtide Informatics Systems PDF