ANN: ElementTree 1.2 alpha 2, ElementTidy 1.0 alpha 1
Fredrik Lundh
fredrik@pythonware.com
Tue, 5 Aug 2003 11:35:49 +0200
The Element type is a simple but flexible container object, designed
to store hierarchical data structures, such as simplified XML infosets,
in memory. The ElementTree package provides a Python implementation
of this type, plus code to serialize element trees to and from XML =
files.
The 1.2 alpha 2 release fixes some minor issues (most notably, nicer
serialization of the "xml" default namespace).
You can get the ElementTree toolkit from:
http://effbot.org/downloads
Brief documentation and some code samples (including an XML-RPC
unmarshaller in 16 lines) are available from:
http://effbot.org/zone/element-index.htm
If you want more sample code, my blog currently features a number of
short articles on parsing stuff with element trees (the first four all =
deal
with RSS and RSS-like formats):
http://online.effbot.org/2003_07_01_archive.htm#element-tricks
In a related release, the ElementTidy library provides an alternative
tree builder that can read (almost) arbitrary HTML, and turn it into
well-formed XHTML element trees. The ElementTidy library uses a
library versions of Dave Raggett's HTML Tidy utility to do the clean-
up (source code is included), and does not rely on external utilities.
http://effbot.org/downloads
http://effbot.org/zone/element-tidylib.htm
enjoy /F