XML file parsing with SAX

[Uche Ogbuji]

On 4/23/05, Willem Ligtenberg <wligtenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> so that will be sax.handler.feature_external_ges = "false"

Yes.

> And it will work?

Honestly, I'm not sure.  It should, but I've found these edge cases a
bit hard to predict in  the Python built-in libs :-(

> But what about using a catalog? I am very new to python and XML...

Catalogs allow you to rewrite the IDs for entities and such.  So if
you had an XML file with an entity at a URL, but you were working
offline, you could use a catalog to "redirect" the entity to a copy on
your local filesystem.

Problem, now that I think of it, is that I'm not sure you can specify
an catalog in PySAX.  You might instead have to override the method
entityResolver in your handler (and be sure to ).  See the example in
listing 1 and and discussion here:

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/03/02/pyxml.html

Good luck.

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