[XML-SIG] Trying to get Metaparser code segment working

[Lars Marius Garshol]

* Yusuf Goolamabbas
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| My apologies if this question is not relevant to this SIG. 

No problem. :-)
 
| 	def startElement(self, name, attribs):
| 		exec('start_' + name + '(' + "self" + ',' + "attribs" + ')')

You probably mean

  exec('self.start_' + name + '(' + "attribs" + ')')
 
but I'm not sure if that will work either, since attribs probably
won't be repr-ed and reparsed correctly. You could put it in as a
literal, but then I think you'd get scoping problems.

My suggestion is that you do as xmlllib:

  method = getattr('self.start_' + name)
  method(attribs)

--Lars M.