Is there any Generic RSS/ATOM generator in Python?

Torsten Bronger bronger at physik.rwth-aachen.de
Thu Feb 14 02:27:35 EST 2008


Hallöchen!

Terran Melconian writes:

> On 2008-02-11, js <ebgssth at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Is there any de-fact standard RSS/ATOM generator? (especially,
>> I'd like to create Atom's) Do I have to do it myself from
>> scratch?
>
> I looked into similar issues about six months ago.  My conclusion
> was that generally XML generation libraries (unlike parsers) don't
> get written, because there's little enough to them that it isn't
> seen as worth doing, and that accepted practice is to just do it
> yourself.

Maybe I understand you wrongly but there *is* a general XML
generator with ElementTree.  I wouldn't generate XML directly but
using ElementTree to generate Atom.  I did it myself three months
ago and it was really trivial.

Tschö,
Torsten.

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