Greg Lindstrom wrote: > Hello- > I am in the process of creating an XML document from information > stored in our database. One of my colleagues will use the record to > format our information (health care claims) into all sorts of forms, > reports, etc. He is partial to PHP5 but I like Python and would like > to know if there is something that would read in my XML file and > format it in a similar manner to "pretty print" so I can verify the > correct information is being pulled. I have looked into the XML > documentation and, to be honest, I am overwhelmed with the choices; > SAX, DOM, XPath, 4Suite, and more. Though I've been coding full time > for 25 years, I'm new to XML and could use some pointers. > > My immediate concern is to read in an XML stream from a file and > format it with indentation so that I can read and verify the data > against out database. My long term concern is what tool(s) do you > think would give the biggest return against the effort required to > learn them? The claim files I am generating will be less than a meg > each, if that matters. > Greg,
Googling found the following Python/SAX XML indenter: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/xml-sig/1999-January/000756.html It should do what you want or at least give you a head start. Cheers, F. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
