ANN: XML builder for Python

[Walter Dörwald]

Jonas Galvez wrote:
> Walter Dörwald wrote:
>> XIST has been using with blocks since version 3.0.
>> [...]
>> with xsc.Frag() as node:
>>   +xml.XML()
>>   +html.DocTypeXHTML10transitional()
>>   with html.html():
>> [...]
> 
> Sweet! I don't like having to use the unary operator tho, I wanted
> something as simple as possible, so I wouldn't even have to assign a
> variable on the with block ("as something").

You only have to assign the node a name in the outermost with block so 
that you can use the node object afterwards. But of course you can 
always implement the outermost __enter__/__exit__ in such a way, that 
the node gets written to an outputstream immediately.

> I plan to add some
> validation and error checking, but for generating feeds for my Atom
> store it's reasonably fast and lean (just over 50 lines of code).

Servus,
    Walter