Re: xml application advice

2009-06-10 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> > If what you're interested in is to get real work done, why decide to > make XML a showstopper? > > I see two tasks: (a) transforming a text file description of a sprinkler > system into a Python data structure, and (b) implementing algorithms > to find out important stuff about such a data st

Re: xml application advice

2009-06-10 Thread Scott David Daniels
William Purcell wrote: Scott David Daniels wrote: William Purcell wrote: I am writing a application to calculate pressure drop for a piping network. Namely a building sprinkler system. This will be a command line program at first with the system described in xml If you are going to be do

Re: xml application advice

2009-06-10 Thread William Purcell
Scott David Daniels wrote: > William Purcell wrote: >> I am writing a application to calculate pressure drop for a piping >> network. Namely a building sprinkler system. This will be a >> command line program at first with the system described in xml > > If you are going to be doing a lot of

Re: xml application advice

2009-06-10 Thread Jorgen Grahn
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:57:42 -0500, William Purcell wrote: ... > I am writing a application to calculate pressure drop for a piping > network. Namely a building sprinkler system. This will be a > command line program at first with the system described in xml (at > least that is how I think I wan

Re: xml application advice

2009-06-10 Thread Scott David Daniels
William Purcell wrote: I am writing a application to calculate pressure drop for a piping network. Namely a building sprinkler system. This will be a command line program at first with the system described in xml If you are going to be doing a lot of tree walking, try etree. Simple exampl

Re: xml application advice

2009-06-10 Thread William Purcell
Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > William Purcell wrote: > >> I am writing a application to calculate pressure drop for a piping >> network. Namely a building sprinkler system. This will be a >> command line program at first with the system described in xml (at >> least that is how I think I want to do

Re: xml application advice

2009-06-10 Thread Peter Otten
William Purcell wrote: > I am writing a application to calculate pressure drop for a piping > network. Namely a building sprinkler system. This will be a > command line program at first with the system described in xml (at > least that is how I think I want to do it). > > An important part of t

Re: xml application advice

2009-06-10 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
William Purcell wrote: > I am writing a application to calculate pressure drop for a piping > network. Namely a building sprinkler system. This will be a > command line program at first with the system described in xml (at > least that is how I think I want to do it). > > An important part of t

RE: xml application advice

2009-06-10 Thread David Shapiro
How about using web server (tomcat jsp) and then java for the xml part, which would allow you to build a nice gui for you. You can use python for backend work. If you can combine some of the levels of your xml it will be easier to traverse. I am not sure this will work for you, but I put as a