[XML-SIG] Switching back and forward between SAX and DOM

[Uche Ogbuji]

> Eric van der Vlist <vdv@dyomedea.com> writes:
> 
> > How can you get a DOM tree out of SAX events (if for instance you've
> > developed a ContentHandler, can you retrieve a part of the document as
> > a DOM tree by forwarding the events to a DOM parser?) 
> 
> Depends on whether you have PyXML, or only Python proper. With
> minidom, there is xml.dom.ext.reader.Sax2, which takes a SAX parser;
> for PyXML, xml.dom.minidom.parse does the same thing. Notice that, in
> both cases, you need to pass an XMLReader. For minidom, the content
> handler that will build the DOM tree is xml.dom.pulldom.SAX2DOM
> (unless you need the pulldom functionality itself); for 4DOM, it
> is xml.dom.ext.reader.Sax2.XmlDomGenerator.
> 
> > how can I serialize a DOM tree as SAX events which can be processed
> > by a ContentHandler?
> 
> For PyXML, xml.dom.ext.Dom2Sax does that. In standard Python, that
> functionality is not available.
> 
> Notice that you will have to experiment, and might find bugs, since
> that functionality is rarely used.

Well, I should have known Martin would have it all offhead  :-).

It is pretty much as I'd thought.  I don't recommend that Eric switch to 4DOM. 
 Not only has he already survived one traumatic switch, but it is a great step 
backward, not least because 4DOM is excruciatingly slow.

I'll look to updating xml.dom.ext.reader.Sax2.XmlDomGenerator and 
xml.dom.ext.Dom2Sax to general-purpose utilities for both PyXML and 4Suite 
domlettes.  Should go pretty quickly if I end up in enough boring sessions 
here at XML One  :-)


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