On 23 Jan, 15:12, Stefan Behnel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Paul Boddie wrote:
> > I'm not disputing the benefits of the ElementTree approach, but one
> > has to recall that the DOM is probably the most widely used XML API
> > out there (being the one most client-side developers are using) and
>
Hi,
Paul Boddie wrote:
> I'm not disputing the benefits of the ElementTree approach, but one
> has to recall that the DOM is probably the most widely used XML API
> out there (being the one most client-side developers are using) and
> together with the other standards (XPath and so on) isn't as ba
On 23 Jan, 12:03, Stefan Behnel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> I had a discussion with Java people lately and they were all for Ruby, Groovy
> and similar languages, "because they have curly braces and are easy to learn
> when you know Java".
>
> My take on that is: Python is easy to learn, full-st
Hi,
Paul Boddie wrote:
> People will, of course, tell you that you shouldn't use a DOM for
> anything and that the "consensus" is to use ElementTree or lxml (see
> above), but I can't help feeling that this has a damaging effect on
> the XML situation for Python: some newcomers would actually bene
Paul McGuire wrote:
>
> Here is a pyparsing hack for your problem.
Thanks Paul! This looks like an interesting approach, and once I get my
head around the syntax, I'll give it a proper whirl.
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On 22 Jan, 15:11, John Carlyle-Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> I wrote some code that works on my Linux box using xml.dom.minidom, but
> it will not run on the windows box that I really need it on. Python
> 2.5.1 on both.
>
> On the windows machine, it's a clean install of the Python .msi fr
On Jan 22, 9:11 am, John Carlyle-Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> By the way, is pyxml a live project or not? Should it still be used?
> It's odd that if you go tohttp://www.python.org/and click the link
> "Using python for..." XML, it leads you tohttp://pyxml.sourceforge.net/topics/
>
> If yo
On Jan 22, 8:11 am, John Carlyle-Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm new to Python and trying to use it to solve a specific problem. I
> have an XML file in which I need to locate a specific text node and
> replace the contents with some other text. The text in question is
> actually
Hi.
I'm new to Python and trying to use it to solve a specific problem. I
have an XML file in which I need to locate a specific text node and
replace the contents with some other text. The text in question is
actually about 70k of base64 encoded data.
I wrote some code that works on my Linux
