Problem with "&" charater in xml.

[George Bina]

A SAX parser can notify a text node by calling any number of times the
characters method so you need to accumulate all the information you
receive on the characters method and output the text when you get a
notification different than characters.

Best Regards,
George
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George Cristian Bina
<oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
http://www.oxygenxml.com

Kirt wrote:
> i have walked a directory and have written the foll xml document.
> one of the folder had "&" character so i replaced it by "&"
> #------------------test1.xml
> <Directory>
>   <dirname>C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\1\bye
> w&y </dirname>
>   <file>
>   <name>def.txt</name>
>   <time>200607130417</time>
>   </file>
> </Directory>
>  <Directory>
>   <dirname>C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\1\hii
> wx</dirname>
>   <file>
>   <name>abc.txt</name>
>   <time>200607130415</time>
>   </file>
> </Directory
>
> now in my python code i want to parse this doc and print the directory
> name.
> ###----------handler------------filename---handler.py
> from xml.sax.handler import ContentHandler
> class oldHandler(ContentHandler):
>                def __init__(self):
>   			self.dn = 0
>                 def startElement(self, name, attrs):
> 			if name=='dirname':
> 				self.dn=1
>
> 		def characters(self,str):
> 			if self.dn:
>                                print str
>
>                 def endElement(self, name):
> 			if name == 'dirname':
>                          	self.dn=0
>
>
> #---------------------------------------------------------------------
> #main code--- fname----art.py
> import sys
> from xml.sax 	import 	make_parser
> from handlers import	oldHandler
>
> ch = oldHandler()
> saxparser = make_parser()
>
> saxparser.setContentHandler(ch)
> saxparser.parse(sys.argv[1])
> #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> i run the code as:  $python art.py test1.xml
>
> i am getting output as:
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\1\bye w
> &
> y
> C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\1\hii wx
>
> where as i need an output which should look like this.
> C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\1\bye w&y
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\1\hii wx
> 
> Can someone tell me the solution for this.