Python & XML

[Paul Prescod]

Chris Richard Adams wrote:
> 
> Hi all..
> 
> 
> 
> I have a tab seperated file that I would like to parse and store in XML
> 
> format.
> 
> file example:
> 
> line1: 12:00:00 bob nassl.pdf 123.123.123.123
> 
> would like to create an xml file from this text file in the form
> 
> <upload>
> 
>         <time>12:00:00</time>
> 
>         <user>bob</user>
> 
>         <file>nassl.pdf</file>
> 
>         <ip>123.123.123.123</ip>
> 
> </upload>

I would suggest something like this:

time, name, file, ip = line.split("\t")

print """
<upload>
         <time>%s</time>
         <user>%s</user>
         <file>%s</file>
         <ip>%s</ip>
</upload>""" % (date, name, file, ip)

I would discourage you from spending much effort looking for
XML-specific ways to do things that you probably already know how to do.
Reading an XML file is hard and should usually be done through a
specialized module. Writing XML is easy so you often don't need a
module.

 Paul Prescod