python from Java

[Fredrik Lundh]

>> okay i tried the above approaches but no luck. See the problem is an XML
>> parser which works on a PDA - pythonce. Now elementtree uses pyexpat
>> (which  pythonce doesn't have)
>
> that's why ElementTree ships with several alternative tree builders.

by the way, it's trivial to build trees from arbitrary SAX-style sources.
just create an instance of the ElementTree.TreeBuilder class, and call
the "start", "end", and "data" methods as appropriate.

    builder = ElementTree.TreeBuilder()
    builder.start("tag", {})
    builder.data("text")
    builder.end("tag")
    elem = builder.close()

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