From ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk  Tue Apr  1 09:06:44 2003
From: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson)
Date: 01 Apr 2003 10:06:44 +0100
Subject: [XML-SIG] Re: how to use XSV in python to validate an xml file against an xsd schema file
In-Reply-To: <200303311152.h2VBq9q27850@mailgate5.cinetic.de>
References: <200303311152.h2VBq9q27850@mailgate5.cinetic.de>
Message-ID: <f5bwuiek2mz.fsf@erasmus.inf.ed.ac.uk>

"Nico Grubert" <nicogrubert@web.de> writes:


> Unfortunately, I do not know exactly what I have to do with the line
> " res[0].printme(sys.stdout) " you mentioned in your posting.

You seem to have missed my original posting, which that is a
correction to.  Here's the whole thing, corrected.


As its name suggests, runitAndShow does the output itself, but it goes
to stderr, so you may have just never seen it.

Also note the second argument is a list, so you need to say

>>> runitAndShow(xmlfile,[schemafile])

For your purposes, you want to do

"""
# validateTestXML.py

from XSV.driver import runit
import sys

xmlfile     = "myxmlfile.xml"
schemafile  = "myxsdfile.xsd"

res = runit( xmlfile, [schemafile] )

res[0].printme(sys.stdout)

"""

You can inspect res to see how your validation went.

ht
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From philippe.dubreuil@inrialpes.fr  Tue Apr  1 15:06:36 2003
From: philippe.dubreuil@inrialpes.fr (Philippe Dubreuil)
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 17:06:36 +0200
Subject: [XML-SIG] re : XSL Performance / Processors
Message-ID: <3E89AAFC.9090208@inrialpes.fr>

Hello,

I'm actually working on xsl processor, and particulary on saxon and xalan.
I would like to show that builtin XSLT indexing mechanisms (i.e 
<xsl:key> tag) are  very useful, and then find a way to propagate them 
through several
transformations.

I have done some tests : Saxon is really faster than Xalan. They are two 
different tree implementations in Saxon. The use of tinytree seems to 
decrease the performance whereas results are really "good" with tree 
implementation.

The tinytree  should win because it is faster to
build, and uses less memory: in principle the full tree should be faster
if you keep it in memory and use it often enough to pay for the extra
build cost.
The key implementation in the two cases is identical.


But nobody can explain my results :
"Performance can depend on many apparently unrelated factors (including
the fluttering of the wings of a butterfly...)" M.Kay 


Example----------
I use for my example a typical bibliography document, ie
<biblio..>
<reference><authors><p first=".." last=".."/></authors>
    <title> (...)
</reference>

size ~(5Mo)

    
Here are parts of stylesheets that I use: withIndex :
key declaration
<xsl:key name="clef2" match="//reference" use="authors/p/@last">

<xsl:for-each select='key("clef2","zorro")'>
    <li><xsl:value-of select="title"/></li>
</xsl:for-each>


noIndex <xsl:for-each select="//reference/authors/p[@last='zorro']">
    <li><xsl:value-of select=".../../title"/></li>
</xsl:for-each>

Some of my results (execution Time)  (RedHat 6.2, i686, 256Mo RAM, PIII 
550Mhz)
I'm using the same structure (index or not) three times in this example.
If I use 10 times, i get the same results.

 
                  withIndex               noIndex
Xalan2.5             8780ms                 9108ms    
Saxon6.5.2  tree     2800ms                 2900ms
"          tinytree 3021ms                 1757ms   !!!!

---------------------------------------------

I'm really interested in finding similar results.
thanks


Phil. Dubreuil
INRIA Rhone Alpes
FRANCE



From veillard@redhat.com  Tue Apr  1 15:33:33 2003
From: veillard@redhat.com (Daniel Veillard)
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 10:33:33 -0500
Subject: [XML-SIG] re : XSL Performance / Processors
In-Reply-To: <3E89AAFC.9090208@inrialpes.fr>; from philippe.dubreuil@inrialpes.fr on Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 05:06:36PM +0200
References: <3E89AAFC.9090208@inrialpes.fr>
Message-ID: <20030401103333.K31240@redhat.com>

On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 05:06:36PM +0200, Philippe Dubreuil wrote:
> But nobody can explain my results :
> "Performance can depend on many apparently unrelated factors (including
> the fluttering of the wings of a butterfly...)" M.Kay 
[...]
> Some of my results (execution Time)  (RedHat 6.2, i686, 256Mo RAM, PIII 
> 550Mhz)
> I'm using the same structure (index or not) three times in this example.
> If I use 10 times, i get the same results.
> 
>  
>                   withIndex               noIndex
> Xalan2.5             8780ms                 9108ms    
> Saxon6.5.2  tree     2800ms                 2900ms
> "          tinytree 3021ms                 1757ms   !!!!
> 

  If you want to do performance timing, using a Java based implementation
is the best way to introduce irrationality in your results. The effects
of the HotSpot algorithm detection and of the asynchronous garbage collection
simply makes any test run less than 50 times a joke, because they don't
represent the output of the real working set nor show GC effects.
  In general the more you pile up complex layers, the hardest it is
to get predicatble results for the whole stack,

   have fun !

Daniel

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From stephane.bidoul@softwareag.com  Tue Apr  1 19:46:59 2003
From: stephane.bidoul@softwareag.com (Stephane Bidoul)
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 21:46:59 +0200
Subject: [XML-SIG] Advice on how to deal with locking problems using	python-wrapped C libs in MT frameworks like Zope/Twisted?
In-Reply-To: <20030331050920.W31240@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <00e301c2f887$760e5780$ca14200a@acsesbi>

> > Here's an example of how to release the GIL in C:
> > 
> > 	Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS;
> > 	/* Call into some C lib */
> > 	Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS;
> 
>   Hum, of course I assume it's an expensive operation. As a result
> I can't generate it for all calls to libxml2 or libxslt, and which
> call need it or not need to be manually selected, it's not something
> which can be automated. As a result it's a request for enhancement
> of my Python bindings but since it requires going over the full 
> set of entry point manually, and an update of the bindings generator
> don't expect it to be done quickly.

Also, if I remember well, you must be sure to reacquire the interpreter
lock before calling back into python (in the error handler callback, 
for instance).

-sbi


From uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com  Tue Apr  1 21:12:50 2003
From: uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com (Uche Ogbuji)
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 14:12:50 -0700
Subject: [XML-SIG] re : XSL Performance / Processors
In-Reply-To: Message from Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>
 of "Tue, 01 Apr 2003 10:33:33 EST." <20030401103333.K31240@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <E190T3q-0003Le-00@borgia.local>

> On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 05:06:36PM +0200, Philippe Dubreuil wrote:
> > But nobody can explain my results :
> > "Performance can depend on many apparently unrelated factors (including
> > the fluttering of the wings of a butterfly...)" M.Kay 
> [...]
> > Some of my results (execution Time)  (RedHat 6.2, i686, 256Mo RAM, PIII 
> > 550Mhz)
> > I'm using the same structure (index or not) three times in this example.
> > If I use 10 times, i get the same results.
> > 
> >  
> >                   withIndex               noIndex
> > Xalan2.5             8780ms                 9108ms    
> > Saxon6.5.2  tree     2800ms                 2900ms
> > "          tinytree 3021ms                 1757ms   !!!!
> > 
> 
>   If you want to do performance timing, using a Java based implementation
> is the best way to introduce irrationality in your results. The effects
> of the HotSpot algorithm detection and of the asynchronous garbage collection
> simply makes any test run less than 50 times a joke, because they don't
> represent the output of the real working set nor show GC effects.
>   In general the more you pile up complex layers, the hardest it is
> to get predicatble results for the whole stack,

Agreed with this comment.

I'm also wondering what the original question has to do with the Python 
XML-SIG.


-- 
Uche Ogbuji                                    Fourthought, Inc.
http://uche.ogbuji.net    http://4Suite.org    http://fourthought.com
Use internal references in XML vocabularies - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerw
orks/xml/library/x-tipvocab.html
Universal Business Language (UBL) - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/l
ibrary/x-think16.html
EXSLT by example - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-exslt.html
The worry about program wizards - http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=7238
Use rdf:about and rdf:ID effectively in RDF/XML - http://www-106.ibm.com/develo
perworks/xml/library/x-tiprdfai.html
Keep context straight in XSLT - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/libra
ry/x-tipcurrent.html
Using SAX for Proper XML Output - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/03/12/py-xml.ht
ml
SAX filters for flexible processing - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml
/library/x-tipsaxflex.html




From mark@easymailings.com  Wed Apr  2 18:22:01 2003
From: mark@easymailings.com (Mark Bucciarelli)
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 13:22:01 -0500
Subject: [XML-SIG] Uninstalling pyxml Fixes Crash
In-Reply-To: <m38yuvt9jn.fsf@mira.informatik.hu-berlin.de>
References: <200303271610.41642.mark@easymailings.com> <200303311641.21403.mark@easymailings.com> <m38yuvt9jn.fsf@mira.informatik.hu-berlin.de>
Message-ID: <200304021322.01612.mark@easymailings.com>

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On Monday 31 March 2003 6:12 pm, Martin v. L=F6wis wrote:
> Mark Bucciarelli <mark@easymailings.com> writes:
> > Anything else that might be helpful?
>
> Yes, an exact citation of the XML and DTD, perhaps in form of a
> minimal example.

See attached.

Mark
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From tlo@aw.sgi.com  Wed Apr  2 22:52:34 2003
From: tlo@aw.sgi.com (Terence Lo)
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 17:52:34 -0500
Subject: [XML-SIG] smtpLib and xml_instance?
Message-ID: <026c01c2f96a$8d9f6b80$ca411dc6@ms.aliaswavefront.com>

Hi there,
Just wondering if someone could help me out.  For some odd reason when I run
the following code snippet,

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
import sys, smtplib, string, os
from gnosis.xml.objectify import XML_Objectify, pyobj_printer

xml_obj = XML_Objectify('config.xml')
config = xml_obj.make_instance()

fromaddr = 'bob@asdf.com'
toaddrs = config.mailer.email.PCDATA

print toaddrs

bodytext = 'this is the bodytext'

smtp = smtplib.SMTP('mail.tor.aw.sgi.com')
smtp.sendmail(fromaddr, toaddrs, bodytext)

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
OUTPUT:

  File "C:\Python21\lib\smtplib.py", line 494, in sendmail
    (code,resp) = self.data(msg)
  File "C:\Python21\lib\smtplib.py", line 384, in data
    raise SMTPDataError(code,repl)
smtplib.SMTPDataError: (503, 'Need RCPT (recipient)')

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


I get a  smtplib.SMTPDataError: (503, 'Need RCPT (recipient)') error.  Now I
know that I am fairly certain that the xml file that I am using is correct
because when i print out the toaddrs variable, it correctly displays the
correct email address.

Now when I hardcode:

toaddrs = "blah@blah.com"

*instead of*
toaddrs = config.mailer.email.PCDATA

The smtplib.SMTPDataError doesn't occur.  If someone could this newbie out,
I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks in advance!

Terence.




From jasj@miller.cs.uwm.edu  Thu Apr  3 01:52:09 2003
From: jasj@miller.cs.uwm.edu (Jason Michael Jurkowski)
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 19:52:09 -0600 (CST)
Subject: [XML-SIG] smtpLib and xml_instance?
In-Reply-To: <026c01c2f96a$8d9f6b80$ca411dc6@ms.aliaswavefront.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0304021943430.5999-100000@miller.cs.uwm.edu>

the print statement invokes the str() method of the object provided to it.
the str() method is providing the character data for that object.
i'm not familiar with the gnosis code but if CDATA is a 'CDATASection
Object' you want to assign PCDATA.data to toaddrs and pass that into the
smtplib code.

On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Terence Lo wrote:

> Hi there,
> Just wondering if someone could help me out.  For some odd reason when I run
> the following code snippet,
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> import sys, smtplib, string, os
> from gnosis.xml.objectify import XML_Objectify, pyobj_printer
>
> xml_obj = XML_Objectify('config.xml')
> config = xml_obj.make_instance()
>
> fromaddr = 'bob@asdf.com'
> toaddrs = config.mailer.email.PCDATA
>
> print toaddrs
>
> bodytext = 'this is the bodytext'
>
> smtp = smtplib.SMTP('mail.tor.aw.sgi.com')
> smtp.sendmail(fromaddr, toaddrs, bodytext)
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> OUTPUT:
>
>   File "C:\Python21\lib\smtplib.py", line 494, in sendmail
>     (code,resp) = self.data(msg)
>   File "C:\Python21\lib\smtplib.py", line 384, in data
>     raise SMTPDataError(code,repl)
> smtplib.SMTPDataError: (503, 'Need RCPT (recipient)')
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
>
> I get a  smtplib.SMTPDataError: (503, 'Need RCPT (recipient)') error.  Now I
> know that I am fairly certain that the xml file that I am using is correct
> because when i print out the toaddrs variable, it correctly displays the
> correct email address.
>
> Now when I hardcode:
>
> toaddrs = "blah@blah.com"
>
> *instead of*
> toaddrs = config.mailer.email.PCDATA
>
> The smtplib.SMTPDataError doesn't occur.  If someone could this newbie out,
> I would greatly appreciate it.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Terence.
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> XML-SIG maillist  -  XML-SIG@python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/xml-sig
>



From nicogrubert@web.de  Thu Apr  3 08:45:23 2003
From: nicogrubert@web.de (Nico Grubert)
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 10:45:23 +0200
Subject: [XML-SIG] Running XSV on Python 2.1.3 ?
Message-ID: <200304030845.h338jNq01971@mailgate5.cinetic.de>

hello,

after henry helped me to get a result when validating an xml file against an xsd schema file, I have a question about XSV and Python 2.1.

I have installed Python 2.1 and Python 2.2 on my machine running Debian Linux. Furthermore, I have installed XSV 1.6 for both python versions:

So, XSV is installed in:
- /usr/lib/python2.1/site-packages/XSV/ 
- /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/XSV/ 


When running my short script to validate an xml file against an xsd schema file with python 2.2 everything works fine and I get a result. The XSV developers did a great job ! The parser is absolutely great for validating an xml file agains an xsd schema file.


When running the same script with python 2.1 nothing happens, and the python expression 
"res = runit( xmlfile, [schemafile] )"
seems to crash, because after that line of code, Python does not do anything meaning that I can write the line "raise 'myError', 'My Error'" after the the line "res = runit( xmlfile, [schemafile] )" but the raise statement is never reached.

As I said: With Python 2.2 everything works fine. The problem I have is: I am using the web application server "Zope 2.6.1" which runs on Python 2.1.3 only and I can't get my script to work.

So, my question is: Is it somehow possible to run XSV on Python 2.1.3 ?


thanks in advance,
-nico
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From ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk  Thu Apr  3 09:11:22 2003
From: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson)
Date: 03 Apr 2003 10:11:22 +0100
Subject: [XML-SIG] Running XSV on Python 2.1.3 ?
In-Reply-To: <200304030845.h338jNq01971@mailgate5.cinetic.de>
References: <200304030845.h338jNq01971@mailgate5.cinetic.de>
Message-ID: <f5bn0j80wud.fsf@erasmus.inf.ed.ac.uk>

"Nico Grubert" <nicogrubert@web.de> writes:

> So, my question is: Is it somehow possible to run XSV on Python 2.1.3 ?

Deep within XSV is a fast validating XML parser written in C, and
integrated into Python via its native code interface.  Python 2.1 and
2.2 are incompatible at that level, alas.

It's perfectly possible to build the necessary library (PyLTXML) for
2.1, using the distutils packaging.  Just download
ftp://ftp.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/PyLTXML-1.3.tar.gz, unpack it and follow the
installation instructions, being sure to use python2.1 for the build
and installation.  The instructions will tell you how to get and
install the C parser as well -- there are binary installers for most
common architectures, so that should be straightforward.

ht
-- 
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                      Half-time member of W3C Team
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From tlo@aw.sgi.com  Thu Apr  3 16:16:49 2003
From: tlo@aw.sgi.com (Terence Lo)
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 11:16:49 -0500
Subject: [XML-SIG] smtpLib and xml_instance?
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0304021943430.5999-100000@miller.cs.uwm.edu>
Message-ID: <027c01c2f9fc$6f0a0e40$ca411dc6@ms.aliaswavefront.com>

Thanks for the help Jason.

In case anyone runs into this problem, I've discovered a quick fix.

As it turns out, wrapping the PCDATA with an str() method and assigning it
to toaddrs seems to work quite nicely.

ie.: toaddrs = str(config.mailer.email.PCDATA)

Terence.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Michael Jurkowski [mailto:jasj@miller.cs.uwm.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 8:52 PM
To: Terence Lo
Cc: xml-sig@python.org
Subject: Re: [XML-SIG] smtpLib and xml_instance?


the print statement invokes the str() method of the object provided to it.
the str() method is providing the character data for that object.
i'm not familiar with the gnosis code but if CDATA is a 'CDATASection
Object' you want to assign PCDATA.data to toaddrs and pass that into the
smtplib code.

On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Terence Lo wrote:

> Hi there,
> Just wondering if someone could help me out.  For some odd reason when I
run
> the following code snippet,
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> import sys, smtplib, string, os
> from gnosis.xml.objectify import XML_Objectify, pyobj_printer
>
> xml_obj = XML_Objectify('config.xml')
> config = xml_obj.make_instance()
>
> fromaddr = 'bob@asdf.com'
> toaddrs = config.mailer.email.PCDATA
>
> print toaddrs
>
> bodytext = 'this is the bodytext'
>
> smtp = smtplib.SMTP('mail.tor.aw.sgi.com')
> smtp.sendmail(fromaddr, toaddrs, bodytext)
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> OUTPUT:
>
>   File "C:\Python21\lib\smtplib.py", line 494, in sendmail
>     (code,resp) = self.data(msg)
>   File "C:\Python21\lib\smtplib.py", line 384, in data
>     raise SMTPDataError(code,repl)
> smtplib.SMTPDataError: (503, 'Need RCPT (recipient)')
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
>
> I get a  smtplib.SMTPDataError: (503, 'Need RCPT (recipient)') error.  Now
I
> know that I am fairly certain that the xml file that I am using is correct
> because when i print out the toaddrs variable, it correctly displays the
> correct email address.
>
> Now when I hardcode:
>
> toaddrs = "blah@blah.com"
>
> *instead of*
> toaddrs = config.mailer.email.PCDATA
>
> The smtplib.SMTPDataError doesn't occur.  If someone could this newbie
out,
> I would greatly appreciate it.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Terence.
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> XML-SIG maillist  -  XML-SIG@python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/xml-sig
>



From mark@easymailings.com  Wed Apr  9 17:18:32 2003
From: mark@easymailings.com (Mark Bucciarelli)
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 12:18:32 -0400
Subject: [XML-SIG] [BUG] xml.dom.minidom on Windows.
Message-ID: <200304091218.32306.mark@easymailings.com>

--Boundary-00=_YfEl+DvTdBjt+Ug
Content-Type: text/plain;
  charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline

The attached code snippet produces peculiar results on Windows.  
Namely, it truncates text node data when there is only one grandchild 
tag.

This error occurs on Windows XP, with Python 2.2.2 (#37, Oct 14, 2002, 
17:02:34) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)]  but not on Linux with Python 2.2.1 
(#1, Aug 30 2002, 12:15:30) [GCC 3.2 20020822 (Red Hat Linux Rawhide 
3.2-4)]

The output I get on Windows is shown below.  The test script includes 
a very similar text string that works correctly.  What's kind of fun 
is that if you start to reduce the length of the second granchild 
tag, from "abcdef" to "abcde" and then to "abcd" at some point the 
"works" example will fail as well.  The shorter you make it the more 
trunctated the nodeValue of the text node becomes.

I'll log this at sourceforge.  In the meantime, can anyone suggest a 
work around?

XML: <REQUEST><TYPE>AUTHORIZATION</TYPE><abcdef>123</abcdef></REQUEST>
  Node: <TYPE>AUTHORIZATION</TYPE>
    xml : AUTHORIZATION
    data: "AUTHORIZATION"
  Node: <abcdef>123</abcdef>
    xml : 123
    data: "123"
XML: <REQUEST><TYPE>AUTHORIZATION</TYPE></REQUEST>
  Node: <TYPE>AUTHORIZATION</TYPE>
    xml : AUTHORI
    data: "AUTHORI"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "testparse.py", line 40, in ?
    assert does_not_work['TYPE'] == 'AUTHORIZATION', 
does_not_work['TYPE']
AssertionError: AUTHORI

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Content-Type: text/x-python;
  charset="us-ascii";
  name="testparse.py"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="testparse.py"

import xml.dom.minidom

def parseTwoDeep(strXml):

    retval = {}
    document = xml.dom.minidom.parseString(strXml)
    rootnode = document.firstChild

    for n in rootnode.childNodes:
        if n.nodeType == xml.dom.Node.ELEMENT_NODE:
            retval = parseOneDeep(n.toxml())
    document.unlink()
    return retval

def parseOneDeep(strXml):

    retval = {}
    document = xml.dom.minidom.parseString(strXml)
    rootnode = document.firstChild

    print 'XML:', strXml

    for n in rootnode.childNodes:
        if n.nodeType == xml.dom.Node.ELEMENT_NODE:
            print '  Node:', n.toxml()
            if n.hasChildNodes() and n.firstChild.nodeType == n.TEXT_NODE:
                print '    xml :', n.firstChild.toxml()
                print '    data: "%s"' % n.firstChild.nodeValue
                retval[n.localName] = n.firstChild.nodeValue.strip()
            else:
                retval[n.localName] = ''
    document.unlink()
    
    return retval

works = parseTwoDeep('<ROOT><REQUEST><TYPE>AUTHORIZATION</TYPE><abcdef>123</abcdef></REQUEST></ROOT>')
assert works['TYPE'] == 'AUTHORIZATION', works['TYPE']

does_not_work = parseTwoDeep('<ROOT><REQUEST><TYPE>AUTHORIZATION</TYPE></REQUEST></ROOT>')
assert does_not_work['TYPE'] == 'AUTHORIZATION', does_not_work['TYPE']

--Boundary-00=_YfEl+DvTdBjt+Ug--



From mark@easymailings.com  Wed Apr  9 23:03:57 2003
From: mark@easymailings.com (Mark Bucciarelli)
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 18:03:57 -0400
Subject: [XML-SIG] [BUG] xml.dom.minidom on Windows.
In-Reply-To: <200304091218.32306.mark@easymailings.com>
References: <200304091218.32306.mark@easymailings.com>
Message-ID: <200304091803.58054.mark@easymailings.com>

On Wednesday 09 April 2003 12:18 pm, Mark Bucciarelli wrote:

> In the meantime, can anyone suggest a work around?

Never mind, I got one--use sax instead of minidom.

Mark


From tpassin@comcast.net  Wed Apr  9 23:53:50 2003
From: tpassin@comcast.net (Thomas B. Passin)
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 18:53:50 -0400
Subject: [XML-SIG] [BUG] xml.dom.minidom on Windows.
References: <200304091218.32306.mark@easymailings.com>
Message-ID: <001001c2feea$e3627c80$6401a8c0@tbp1>

[Mark Bucciarelli]
> The attached code snippet produces peculiar results on Windows.  
> Namely, it truncates text node data when there is only one grandchild 
> tag.
> 
> This error occurs on Windows XP, with Python 2.2.2 (#37, Oct 14, 2002, 
> 17:02:34) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)]  but not on Linux with Python 2.2.1 
> (#1, Aug 30 2002, 12:15:30) [GCC 3.2 20020822 (Red Hat Linux Rawhide 
> 3.2-4)]
> 

Your example worked fine on my Win2000/Py2.2 0.8.2 system.

> The output I get on Windows is shown below.  The test script includes 
> a very similar text string that works correctly.  What's kind of fun 
> is that if you start to reduce the length of the second granchild 
> tag, from "abcdef" to "abcde" and then to "abcd" at some point the 
> "works" example will fail as well.  The shorter you make it the more 
> trunctated the nodeValue of the text node becomes.
> 

It still worked for me even truncated all the way down to "a"...

Cheers,

Tom P



From fredrik@pythonware.com  Thu Apr 10 11:13:00 2003
From: fredrik@pythonware.com (Fredrik Lundh)
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 12:13:00 +0200
Subject: [XML-SIG] Re: [BUG] xml.dom.minidom on Windows.
References: <200304091218.32306.mark@easymailings.com>
Message-ID: <b73g1l$v7b$1@main.gmane.org>

Mark Bucciarelli wrote:

> The attached code snippet produces peculiar results on Windows.
> Namely, it truncates text node data when there is only one grandchild
> tag.

your snippet is broken: a DOM tree builder can use any number of text
nodes (including empty nodes) to represent a single text string in the
original XML file.

(either due to buffering, or because the XML file contains plain text
mixed with entities and CDATA sections).

either change your code to deal with this, or call the "normalize" method
before processing the node.

</F>





From mark@easymailings.com  Thu Apr 10 13:20:21 2003
From: mark@easymailings.com (Mark Bucciarelli)
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 08:20:21 -0400
Subject: [XML-SIG] Re: [BUG] xml.dom.minidom on Windows.
In-Reply-To: <b73g1l$v7b$1@main.gmane.org>
References: <200304091218.32306.mark@easymailings.com> <b73g1l$v7b$1@main.gmane.org>
Message-ID: <200304100820.21388.mark@easymailings.com>

On Thursday 10 April 2003 6:13 am, Fredrik Lundh wrote:

> your snippet is broken: 

> call the "normalize" method before processing the node.

yes indeed, thank you.   sorry for the ruckus.


From uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com  Thu Apr 10 14:51:24 2003
From: uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com (Uche Ogbuji)
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 07:51:24 -0600
Subject: Article: Gems From the [XML-SIG] Archives
Message-ID: <3E9576DC.9060903@fourthought.com>

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/04/09/py-xml.html

"In this and in subsequent articles I will mine the richness of the 
XML-SIG mailing list for some of its choicest bits of code. I start in 
this article with a couple of very handy snippets from 1998 and 1999. 
Where necessary, I have updated code to use current APIs, style, and 
conventions in order to make it immediately useful to readers. All code 
in this article was tested using Python 2.2.1 and PyXML 0.8.2."


-- 
Uche Ogbuji                                    Fourthought, Inc.
http://uche.ogbuji.net    http://4Suite.org    http://fourthought.com
Introducing N-Triples - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-think17/index.html
Use internal references in XML vocabularies - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tipvocab.html
EXSLT by example - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-exslt.html
The worry about program wizards - http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=7238
Use rdf:about and rdf:ID effectively in RDF/XML - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tiprdfai.html
Keep context straight in XSLT - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tipcurrent.html
Using SAX for Proper XML Output - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/03/12/py-xml.html




From cstrong@arielpartners.com  Thu Apr 10 15:16:19 2003
From: cstrong@arielpartners.com (Craeg K Strong)
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 10:16:19 -0400
Subject: [4suite] Article: Gems From the [XML-SIG] Archives
In-Reply-To: <3E9576DC.9060903@fourthought.com>
References: <3E9576DC.9060903@fourthought.com>
Message-ID: <3E957CB3.3030102@arielpartners.com>

>
>
> If you are interested in a bit of a mind-bending experimentation in 
> XML output using Python idioms, see this message 
> <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/xml-sig/1998-October/000423.html> by 
> Greg Stein. As an example of the very interesting perspective it 
> provides, the following snippet should generate a bit of XHTML:
>
>|f = Factory()
>body = f.body(bgcolor='#ffffff').p.a(href='l.html').img(src='l.gif')
>html = f.html[f.head.title('title'), body]  |
>
> I think you'll agree this is delightfully twisted.
>

Good catch!  The above seems to me a quite natural and Pythonic way to 
produce XML.
It reminds me of Jakarta's Element Construction Set ( 
http://jakarta.apache.org/ecs ) which we
have been using to produce XML from Java for some time:

Html html = new Html()
              .addElement(new Head()
                  .addElement(new Title("Demo")))
              .addElement(new Body()
              .addElement(new H1("Demo Header"))
              .addElement(new H3("Sub Header:"))
              .addElement(new Font().setSize("+1")
                         .setColor(HtmlColor.WHITE)
                         .setFace("Times")
                         .addElement("The big dog & the little cat chased each other.")));
out.println(html.toString()); 

Of course, Python's built in introspection capabilities make it much
more terse.  Yay, Python.

--Craeg


Uche Ogbuji wrote:

> http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/04/09/py-xml.html
>
> "In this and in subsequent articles I will mine the richness of the 
> XML-SIG mailing list for some of its choicest bits of code. I start in 
> this article with a couple of very handy snippets from 1998 and 1999. 
> Where necessary, I have updated code to use current APIs, style, and 
> conventions in order to make it immediately useful to readers. All 
> code in this article was tested using Python 2.2.1 and PyXML 0.8.2."




From jean@upfrontsystems.co.za  Fri Apr 11 12:44:32 2003
From: jean@upfrontsystems.co.za (Jean Jordaan)
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 13:44:32 +0200
Subject: [4suite] Article: Gems From the [XML-SIG] Archives
In-Reply-To: <3E957CB3.3030102@arielpartners.com>
References: <3E9576DC.9060903@fourthought.com> <3E957CB3.3030102@arielpartners.com>
Message-ID: <3E96AAA0.7050705@upfrontsystems.co.za>

>> body = f.body(bgcolor='#ffffff').p.a(href='l.html').img(src='l.gif')
>> html = f.html[f.head.title('title'), body]  |

This looks to me very close to what JaXML does
   http://www.librelogiciel.com/software/

       # --- Classical Version
       fp = open("sample.xml", "w")
       fp.write('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>\n')
       fp.write('<sometag someattr="1">\n')
       fp.write('    <anothertag jaxml="Nice">\n')
       fp.write('        <thirdone>Yo</thirdone>\n')
       fp.write('    </anothertag>\n')
       fp.write('</sometag>\n')
       fp.close()

       # an equivalent version using JAXML
       import jaxml
       doc = jaxml.XML_document()
       doc.sometag(someattr=1).anothertag(jaxml="Nice")
       doc.thirdone("Yo")
       doc._output("sample.xml")

-- 
Jean Jordaan
http://www.upfrontsystems.co.za



From noreplyplease@lizards.ws  Fri Apr 11 21:33:50 2003
From: noreplyplease@lizards.ws (ixszjmohme@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 22:33:50 +0200
Subject: [XML-SIG] the message
Message-ID: <courier.3E9726AE.000038CF@qwerty.net>

Here is the Message:

http://www.sacredlook.org

You won't receive messages anymore.


From thomas.reimann@outertech.com  Sun Apr 13 00:11:09 2003
From: thomas.reimann@outertech.com (Thomas Reimann)
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 01:11:09 +0200
Subject: [XML-SIG] XBEL Support
Message-ID: <20030413010854.D52A.THOMAS.REIMANN@outertech.com>

Hi!

Your page (http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/topics/xbel/) displays software
that supports the XBEL format.

Our URL Manager Linkman includes a XBEL export template.

-- 
Best regards,
Thomas Reimann
outertech.com



From cstrong@arielpartners.com  Sun Apr 13 05:04:02 2003
From: cstrong@arielpartners.com (Craeg K Strong)
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 00:04:02 -0400
Subject: [XML-SIG] Redhat RPM for PyXML 0.8.2?
In-Reply-To: <m37kapcls7.fsf@mira.informatik.hu-berlin.de>
References: <3E7E94EE.6030706@arielpartners.com> <m37kapcls7.fsf@mira.informatik.hu-berlin.de>
Message-ID: <3E98E1B2.9010803@arielpartners.com>

Martin v. L=F6wis wrote:

>Craeg K Strong <cstrong@arielpartners.com> writes:
> =20
>
>>My Red Hat 8.0 system comes with PyXML 0.7.1 installed as an RPM.
>>there is also a bunch of printconf stuff that depends on PyXML. Can
>>anyone give me advice on how to upgrade to PyXML 0.8.2? - Is there a
>>redhat RPM available anywhere?
>>   =20
>>
>Not that I know of.
> =20
>
>>- Is there someone I can beg and plead to make one for me :-)
>>   =20
>>
>You can make it yourself. Unpack the source distribution, and invoke
>"python setup.py bdist_rpm".
>
Uh oh.  This doesn't look good:

$ python setup.py bdist_rpm

> building RPMs
> rpm -ba --define _topdir /opt/PyXML-0.8.2/build/bdist.linux-i686/rpm=20
> --clean build/bdist.linux-i686/rpm/SPECS/PyXML.spec
> -ba: unknown option
> error: command 'rpm' failed with exit status 1
> $ rpm --version
> RPM version 4.1

This happens on a stock RedHat Linux 8.0

Do you have any suggestions?=20

> Just build an RPM and install it.
>
>Regards,
>Martin
> =20
>
Thanks,

--Craeg



From martin@v.loewis.de  Sun Apr 13 08:44:23 2003
From: martin@v.loewis.de (Martin v. =?iso-8859-15?q?L=F6wis?=)
Date: 13 Apr 2003 09:44:23 +0200
Subject: [XML-SIG] Redhat RPM for PyXML 0.8.2?
In-Reply-To: <3E98E1B2.9010803@arielpartners.com>
References: <3E7E94EE.6030706@arielpartners.com>
 <m37kapcls7.fsf@mira.informatik.hu-berlin.de>
 <3E98E1B2.9010803@arielpartners.com>
Message-ID: <m3r886x2nc.fsf@mira.informatik.hu-berlin.de>

--=-=-=

Craeg K Strong <cstrong@arielpartners.com> writes:

> $ python setup.py bdist_rpm
> 
> > building RPMs
> > rpm -ba --define _topdir /opt/PyXML-0.8.2/build/bdist.linux-i686/rpm
> > --clean build/bdist.linux-i686/rpm/SPECS/PyXML.spec
> > -ba: unknown option
> > error: command 'rpm' failed with exit status 1
> > $ rpm --version
> > RPM version 4.1
> 
> This happens on a stock RedHat Linux 8.0
> 
> Do you have any suggestions?

Ah, f*cking RPM. Redhat decided to kill "rpm -ba", and asks everybody
to use "rpmbuild" instead. This is fixed in recent distutils; please
replace bdist_rpm with the file attached.

Regards,
Martin


--=-=-=
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=bdist_rpm.py

"""distutils.command.bdist_rpm

Implements the Distutils 'bdist_rpm' command (create RPM source and binary
distributions)."""

# created 2000/04/25, by Harry Henry Gebel

__revision__ = "$Id: bdist_rpm.py,v 1.27.6.3 2002/11/04 13:33:47 akuchling Exp $"

import sys, os, string
import glob
from types import *
from distutils.core import Command, DEBUG
from distutils.util import get_platform
from distutils.file_util import write_file
from distutils.errors import *

class bdist_rpm (Command):

    description = "create an RPM distribution"

    user_options = [
        ('bdist-base=', None,
         "base directory for creating built distributions"),
        ('rpm-base=', None,
         "base directory for creating RPMs (defaults to \"rpm\" under "
         "--bdist-base; must be specified for RPM 2)"),
        ('dist-dir=', 'd',
         "directory to put final RPM files in "
         "(and .spec files if --spec-only)"),
        ('python=', None,
         "path to Python interpreter to hard-code in the .spec file "
         "(default: \"python\")"),
        ('fix-python', None,
         "hard-code the exact path to the current Python interpreter in "
         "the .spec file"),
        ('spec-only', None,
         "only regenerate spec file"),
        ('source-only', None,
         "only generate source RPM"),
        ('binary-only', None,
         "only generate binary RPM"),
        ('use-bzip2', None,
         "use bzip2 instead of gzip to create source distribution"),

        # More meta-data: too RPM-specific to put in the setup script,
        # but needs to go in the .spec file -- so we make these options
        # to "bdist_rpm".  The idea is that packagers would put this
        # info in setup.cfg, although they are of course free to
        # supply it on the command line.
        ('distribution-name=', None,
         "name of the (Linux) distribution to which this "
         "RPM applies (*not* the name of the module distribution!)"),
        ('group=', None,
         "package classification [default: \"Development/Libraries\"]"),
        ('release=', None,
         "RPM release number"),
        ('serial=', None,
         "RPM serial number"),
        ('vendor=', None,
         "RPM \"vendor\" (eg. \"Joe Blow <joe@example.com>\") "
         "[default: maintainer or author from setup script]"),
        ('packager=', None,
         "RPM packager (eg. \"Jane Doe <jane@example.net>\")"
         "[default: vendor]"),
        ('doc-files=', None,
         "list of documentation files (space or comma-separated)"),
        ('changelog=', None,
         "RPM changelog"),
        ('icon=', None,
         "name of icon file"),
        ('provides=', None,
         "capabilities provided by this package"),
        ('requires=', None,
         "capabilities required by this package"),
        ('conflicts=', None,
         "capabilities which conflict with this package"),
        ('build-requires=', None,
         "capabilities required to build this package"),
        ('obsoletes=', None,
         "capabilities made obsolete by this package"),

        # Actions to take when building RPM
        ('keep-temp', 'k',
         "don't clean up RPM build directory"),
        ('no-keep-temp', None,
         "clean up RPM build directory [default]"),
        ('use-rpm-opt-flags', None,
         "compile with RPM_OPT_FLAGS when building from source RPM"),
        ('no-rpm-opt-flags', None,
         "do not pass any RPM CFLAGS to compiler"),
        ('rpm3-mode', None,
         "RPM 3 compatibility mode (default)"),
        ('rpm2-mode', None,
         "RPM 2 compatibility mode"),
       ]

    boolean_options = ['keep-temp', 'use-rpm-opt-flags', 'rpm3-mode']

    negative_opt = {'no-keep-temp': 'keep-temp',
                    'no-rpm-opt-flags': 'use-rpm-opt-flags',
                    'rpm2-mode': 'rpm3-mode'}


    def initialize_options (self):
        self.bdist_base = None
        self.rpm_base = None
        self.dist_dir = None
        self.python = None
        self.fix_python = None
        self.spec_only = None
        self.binary_only = None
        self.source_only = None
        self.use_bzip2 = None

        self.distribution_name = None
        self.group = None
        self.release = None
        self.serial = None
        self.vendor = None
        self.packager = None
        self.doc_files = None
        self.changelog = None
        self.icon = None

        self.prep_script = None
        self.build_script = None
        self.install_script = None
        self.clean_script = None
        self.pre_install = None
        self.post_install = None
        self.pre_uninstall = None
        self.post_uninstall = None
        self.prep = None
        self.provides = None
        self.requires = None
        self.conflicts = None
        self.build_requires = None
        self.obsoletes = None

        self.keep_temp = 0
        self.use_rpm_opt_flags = 1
        self.rpm3_mode = 1

    # initialize_options()


    def finalize_options (self):
        self.set_undefined_options('bdist', ('bdist_base', 'bdist_base'))
        if self.rpm_base is None:
            if not self.rpm3_mode:
                raise DistutilsOptionError, \
                      "you must specify --rpm-base in RPM 2 mode"
            self.rpm_base = os.path.join(self.bdist_base, "rpm")

        if self.python is None:
            if self.fix_python:
                self.python = sys.executable
            else:
                self.python = "python"
        elif self.fix_python:
            raise DistutilsOptionError, \
                  "--python and --fix-python are mutually exclusive options"

        if os.name != 'posix':
            raise DistutilsPlatformError, \
                  ("don't know how to create RPM "
                   "distributions on platform %s" % os.name)
        if self.binary_only and self.source_only:
            raise DistutilsOptionError, \
                  "cannot supply both '--source-only' and '--binary-only'"

        # don't pass CFLAGS to pure python distributions
        if not self.distribution.has_ext_modules():
            self.use_rpm_opt_flags = 0

        self.set_undefined_options('bdist', ('dist_dir', 'dist_dir'))
        self.finalize_package_data()

    # finalize_options()

    def finalize_package_data (self):
        self.ensure_string('group', "Development/Libraries")
        self.ensure_string('vendor',
                           "%s <%s>" % (self.distribution.get_contact(),
                                        self.distribution.get_contact_email()))
        self.ensure_string('packager')
        self.ensure_string_list('doc_files')
        if type(self.doc_files) is ListType:
            for readme in ('README', 'README.txt'):
                if os.path.exists(readme) and readme not in self.doc_files:
                    self.doc_files.append(readme)

        self.ensure_string('release', "1")
        self.ensure_string('serial')   # should it be an int?

        self.ensure_string('distribution_name')

        self.ensure_string('changelog')
          # Format changelog correctly
        self.changelog = self._format_changelog(self.changelog)

        self.ensure_filename('icon')

        self.ensure_filename('prep_script')
        self.ensure_filename('build_script')
        self.ensure_filename('install_script')
        self.ensure_filename('clean_script')
        self.ensure_filename('pre_install')
        self.ensure_filename('post_install')
        self.ensure_filename('pre_uninstall')
        self.ensure_filename('post_uninstall')

        # XXX don't forget we punted on summaries and descriptions -- they
        # should be handled here eventually!

        # Now *this* is some meta-data that belongs in the setup script...
        self.ensure_string_list('provides')
        self.ensure_string_list('requires')
        self.ensure_string_list('conflicts')
        self.ensure_string_list('build_requires')
        self.ensure_string_list('obsoletes')

    # finalize_package_data ()


    def run (self):

        if DEBUG:
            print "before _get_package_data():"
            print "vendor =", self.vendor
            print "packager =", self.packager
            print "doc_files =", self.doc_files
            print "changelog =", self.changelog

        # make directories
        if self.spec_only:
            spec_dir = self.dist_dir
            self.mkpath(spec_dir)
        else:
            rpm_dir = {}
            for d in ('SOURCES', 'SPECS', 'BUILD', 'RPMS', 'SRPMS'):
                rpm_dir[d] = os.path.join(self.rpm_base, d)
                self.mkpath(rpm_dir[d])
            spec_dir = rpm_dir['SPECS']

        # Spec file goes into 'dist_dir' if '--spec-only specified',
        # build/rpm.<plat> otherwise.
        spec_path = os.path.join(spec_dir,
                                 "%s.spec" % self.distribution.get_name())
        self.execute(write_file,
                     (spec_path,
                      self._make_spec_file()),
                     "writing '%s'" % spec_path)

        if self.spec_only: # stop if requested
            return

        # Make a source distribution and copy to SOURCES directory with
        # optional icon.
        sdist = self.reinitialize_command('sdist')
        if self.use_bzip2:
            sdist.formats = ['bztar']
        else:
            sdist.formats = ['gztar']
        self.run_command('sdist')

        source = sdist.get_archive_files()[0]
        source_dir = rpm_dir['SOURCES']
        self.copy_file(source, source_dir)

        if self.icon:
            if os.path.exists(self.icon):
                self.copy_file(self.icon, source_dir)
            else:
                raise DistutilsFileError, \
                      "icon file '%s' does not exist" % self.icon


        # build package
        self.announce('building RPMs')
        rpm_cmd = ['rpm']
        if os.path.exists('/usr/bin/rpmbuild') or \
           os.path.exists('/bin/rpmbuild'):
            rpm_cmd = ['rpmbuild']
        if self.source_only: # what kind of RPMs?
            rpm_cmd.append('-bs')
        elif self.binary_only:
            rpm_cmd.append('-bb')
        else:
            rpm_cmd.append('-ba')
        if self.rpm3_mode:
            rpm_cmd.extend(['--define',
                             '_topdir %s/%s' % (os.getcwd(), self.rpm_base),])
        if not self.keep_temp:
            rpm_cmd.append('--clean')
        rpm_cmd.append(spec_path)
        self.spawn(rpm_cmd)

        # XXX this is a nasty hack -- we really should have a proper way to
        # find out the names of the RPM files created; also, this assumes
        # that RPM creates exactly one source and one binary RPM.
        if not self.dry_run:
            if not self.binary_only:
                srpms = glob.glob(os.path.join(rpm_dir['SRPMS'], "*.rpm"))
                assert len(srpms) == 1, \
                       "unexpected number of SRPM files found: %s" % srpms
                self.move_file(srpms[0], self.dist_dir)

            if not self.source_only:
                rpms = glob.glob(os.path.join(rpm_dir['RPMS'], "*/*.rpm"))
                assert len(rpms) == 1, \
                       "unexpected number of RPM files found: %s" % rpms
                self.move_file(rpms[0], self.dist_dir)

    # run()


    def _make_spec_file(self):
        """Generate the text of an RPM spec file and return it as a
        list of strings (one per line).
        """
        # definitions and headers
        spec_file = [
            '%define name ' + self.distribution.get_name(),
            '%define version ' + self.distribution.get_version(),
            '%define release ' + self.release,
            '',
            'Summary: ' + self.distribution.get_description(),
            ]

        # put locale summaries into spec file
        # XXX not supported for now (hard to put a dictionary
        # in a config file -- arg!)
        #for locale in self.summaries.keys():
        #    spec_file.append('Summary(%s): %s' % (locale,
        #                                          self.summaries[locale]))

        spec_file.extend([
            'Name: %{name}',
            'Version: %{version}',
            'Release: %{release}',])

        # XXX yuck! this filename is available from the "sdist" command,
        # but only after it has run: and we create the spec file before
        # running "sdist", in case of --spec-only.
        if self.use_bzip2:
            spec_file.append('Source0: %{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2')
        else:
            spec_file.append('Source0: %{name}-%{version}.tar.gz')

        spec_file.extend([
            'Copyright: ' + self.distribution.get_license(),
            'Group: ' + self.group,
            'BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-buildroot',
            'Prefix: %{_prefix}', ])

        # noarch if no extension modules
        if not self.distribution.has_ext_modules():
            spec_file.append('BuildArchitectures: noarch')

        for field in ('Vendor',
                      'Packager',
                      'Provides',
                      'Requires',
                      'Conflicts',
                      'Obsoletes',
                      ):
            val = getattr(self, string.lower(field))
            if type(val) is ListType:
                spec_file.append('%s: %s' % (field, string.join(val)))
            elif val is not None:
                spec_file.append('%s: %s' % (field, val))


        if self.distribution.get_url() != 'UNKNOWN':
            spec_file.append('Url: ' + self.distribution.get_url())

        if self.distribution_name:
            spec_file.append('Distribution: ' + self.distribution_name)

        if self.build_requires:
            spec_file.append('BuildRequires: ' +
                             string.join(self.build_requires))

        if self.icon:
            spec_file.append('Icon: ' + os.path.basename(self.icon))

        spec_file.extend([
            '',
            '%description',
            self.distribution.get_long_description()
            ])

        # put locale descriptions into spec file
        # XXX again, suppressed because config file syntax doesn't
        # easily support this ;-(
        #for locale in self.descriptions.keys():
        #    spec_file.extend([
        #        '',
        #        '%description -l ' + locale,
        #        self.descriptions[locale],
        #        ])

        # rpm scripts
        # figure out default build script
        def_build = "%s setup.py build" % self.python
        if self.use_rpm_opt_flags:
            def_build = 'env CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS" ' + def_build

        # insert contents of files

        # XXX this is kind of misleading: user-supplied options are files
        # that we open and interpolate into the spec file, but the defaults
        # are just text that we drop in as-is.  Hmmm.

        script_options = [
            ('prep', 'prep_script', "%setup"),
            ('build', 'build_script', def_build),
            ('install', 'install_script',
             ("%s setup.py install "
              "--root=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT "
              "--record=INSTALLED_FILES") % self.python),
            ('clean', 'clean_script', "rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT"),
            ('pre', 'pre_install', None),
            ('post', 'post_install', None),
            ('preun', 'pre_uninstall', None),
            ('postun', 'post_uninstall', None),
        ]

        for (rpm_opt, attr, default) in script_options:
            # Insert contents of file referred to, if no file is refered to
            # use 'default' as contents of script
            val = getattr(self, attr)
            if val or default:
                spec_file.extend([
                    '',
                    '%' + rpm_opt,])
                if val:
                    spec_file.extend(string.split(open(val, 'r').read(), '\n'))
                else:
                    spec_file.append(default)


        # files section
        spec_file.extend([
            '',
            '%files -f INSTALLED_FILES',
            '%defattr(-,root,root)',
            ])

        if self.doc_files:
            spec_file.append('%doc ' + string.join(self.doc_files))

        if self.changelog:
            spec_file.extend([
                '',
                '%changelog',])
            spec_file.extend(self.changelog)

        return spec_file

    # _make_spec_file ()

    def _format_changelog(self, changelog):
        """Format the changelog correctly and convert it to a list of strings
        """
        if not changelog:
            return changelog
        new_changelog = []
        for line in string.split(string.strip(changelog), '\n'):
            line = string.strip(line)
            if line[0] == '*':
                new_changelog.extend(['', line])
            elif line[0] == '-':
                new_changelog.append(line)
            else:
                new_changelog.append('  ' + line)

        # strip trailing newline inserted by first changelog entry
        if not new_changelog[0]:
            del new_changelog[0]

        return new_changelog

    # _format_changelog()

# class bdist_rpm

--=-=-=--


From ryanwilcox@mac.com  Sun Apr 13 23:09:40 2003
From: ryanwilcox@mac.com (Ryan Wilcox)
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 18:09:40 -0400
Subject: [XML-SIG] Can't Build 0.8.2 on Jaguar?
Message-ID: <9F99A43A-6DFC-11D7-91F0-000502BD4C9B@mac.com>

Hi folks. I just joined the list, so if this is a common question I'm 
sorry.

I was trying to build PyXML 0.8.2 today on my OS X (Jaguar) machine and 
got an error:

     % python setup.py help
     Traceback (most recent call last):
       File "setup.py", line 58, in ?
         if sys.platform[:6] == "darwin" and \
     NameError: name 'distutils' is not defined

I tried this with the Apple supplied Python, and Python 2.2.2 with the 
same
result.

Can you shead some light on this error?

Thank you _very_ much,
-Ryan Wilcox



From cstrong@arielpartners.com  Mon Apr 14 01:51:36 2003
From: cstrong@arielpartners.com (Craeg K Strong)
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 20:51:36 -0400
Subject: [XML-SIG] Redhat RPM for PyXML 0.8.2?
In-Reply-To: <m3r886x2nc.fsf@mira.informatik.hu-berlin.de>
References: <3E7E94EE.6030706@arielpartners.com>	<m37kapcls7.fsf@mira.informatik.hu-berlin.de>	<3E98E1B2.9010803@arielpartners.com> <m3r886x2nc.fsf@mira.informatik.hu-berlin.de>
Message-ID: <3E9A0618.9050201@arielpartners.com>

Martin v. L=F6wis wrote:

>Craeg K Strong <cstrong@arielpartners.com> writes:
> =20
>
>>$ python setup.py bdist_rpm
>>   =20
>>
>>>building RPMs
>>>rpm -ba --define _topdir /opt/PyXML-0.8.2/build/bdist.linux-i686/rpm
>>>--clean build/bdist.linux-i686/rpm/SPECS/PyXML.spec
>>>-ba: unknown option
>>>error: command 'rpm' failed with exit status 1
>>>$ rpm --version
>>>RPM version 4.1
>>>     =20
>>>
> Redhat decided to kill "rpm -ba", and asks everybody
>to use "rpmbuild" instead. This is fixed in recent distutils; please
>replace bdist_rpm with the file attached.
>
I did as you said, and using Python 2.1.3 got the following error:
python setup.py bdist_rpm
running bdist_rpm
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 227, in ?
    scripts =3D ['scripts/xmlproc_parse', 'scripts/xmlproc_val']
  File "/opt/Zope-2.6.1-linux2-x86/lib/python2.1/distutils/core.py",=20
line 138, in setup
    dist.run_commands()
  File "/opt/Zope-2.6.1-linux2-x86/lib/python2.1/distutils/dist.py",=20
line 899, in run_commands
    self.run_command(cmd)
  File "/opt/Zope-2.6.1-linux2-x86/lib/python2.1/distutils/dist.py",=20
line 919, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "/opt/zope/lib/python2.1/distutils/command/bdist_rpm.py", line=20
252, in run
    (spec_path,
  File "/opt/zope/lib/python2.1/distutils/command/bdist_rpm.py", line=20
352, in _make_spec_file
    spec_file.extend([
AttributeError: Distribution instance has no attribute 'get_license'

I went ahead and changed line 353 in bdist_rpm.py from

'Copyright: ' + self.distribution.get_license(),

to

'Copyright: n/a',

and it worked.   I looked like the older version of bdist_rpm.py would=20
have had
the same problem, however, as it also calls get_license().  Any ideas?

--Craeg



From jasj@miller.cs.uwm.edu  Mon Apr 14 02:07:02 2003
From: jasj@miller.cs.uwm.edu (Jason Michael Jurkowski)
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 20:07:02 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: [XML-SIG] Can't Build 0.8.2 on Jaguar?
In-Reply-To: <9F99A43A-6DFC-11D7-91F0-000502BD4C9B@mac.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0304132005530.2142-100000@miller.cs.uwm.edu>

if you go to the below url you'll find my proposed patch for this problem.

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/xml-sig/2003-March/009181.html

On Sun, 13 Apr 2003, Ryan Wilcox wrote:

> Hi folks. I just joined the list, so if this is a common question I'm
> sorry.
>
> I was trying to build PyXML 0.8.2 today on my OS X (Jaguar) machine and
> got an error:
>
>      % python setup.py help
>      Traceback (most recent call last):
>        File "setup.py", line 58, in ?
>          if sys.platform[:6] == "darwin" and \
>      NameError: name 'distutils' is not defined
>
> I tried this with the Apple supplied Python, and Python 2.2.2 with the
> same
> result.
>
> Can you shead some light on this error?
>
> Thank you _very_ much,
> -Ryan Wilcox
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> XML-SIG maillist  -  XML-SIG@python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/xml-sig
>



From martin@v.loewis.de  Mon Apr 14 06:29:31 2003
From: martin@v.loewis.de (Martin v. =?iso-8859-15?q?L=F6wis?=)
Date: 14 Apr 2003 07:29:31 +0200
Subject: [XML-SIG] Redhat RPM for PyXML 0.8.2?
In-Reply-To: <3E9A0618.9050201@arielpartners.com>
References: <3E7E94EE.6030706@arielpartners.com>
 <m37kapcls7.fsf@mira.informatik.hu-berlin.de>
 <3E98E1B2.9010803@arielpartners.com>
 <m3r886x2nc.fsf@mira.informatik.hu-berlin.de>
 <3E9A0618.9050201@arielpartners.com>
Message-ID: <m3fzold4uc.fsf@mira.informatik.hu-berlin.de>

Craeg K Strong <cstrong@arielpartners.com> writes:

> AttributeError: Distribution instance has no attribute 'get_license'
> 
> I went ahead and changed line 353 in bdist_rpm.py from
> 
> 'Copyright: ' + self.distribution.get_license(),
> 
> to
> 
> 'Copyright: n/a',
> 
> and it worked.   I looked like the older version of bdist_rpm.py would
> have had
> the same problem, however, as it also calls get_license().  Any ideas?

It's surprising you get this error. In distutils/dist.py, I see the
function

    def get_license(self):
        return self.license or "UNKNOWN"
    get_licence = get_license

which always gives a value. Do you have no function get_license in
dist.py?

Regards,
Martin


From noreply@sourceforge.net  Mon Apr 14 16:16:33 2003
From: noreply@sourceforge.net (SourceForge.net)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 08:16:33 -0700
Subject: [XML-SIG] [ pyxml-Patches-721163 ] xml.xpath type equivalence issue
Message-ID: <E1955hB-0000Oe-00@sc8-sf-web2.sourceforge.net>

Patches item #721163, was opened at 2003-04-14 17:16
Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter
You can respond by visiting: 
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=306473&aid=721163&group_id=6473

Category: DOM
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Paul Boddie (pboddie)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: xml.xpath type equivalence issue

Initial Comment:
In ParsedRelativeLocationPath (in PyXML 0.8.2), there 
is a type equivalence test which seems to be outdated. 
The supplied "unified diff" patch provides a workaround 
rather than a definitive solution, since I don't know 
exactly what kind of test should be used.

This issue arose when I used an XPath expression of 
the form "//element/subelement". Apparently, the 
representation of node lists has changed enough to 
break this code.

----------------------------------------------------------------------

You can respond by visiting: 
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=306473&aid=721163&group_id=6473


From cstrong@arielpartners.com  Mon Apr 14 19:07:21 2003
From: cstrong@arielpartners.com (Craeg Strong)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 14:07:21 -0400
Subject: [XML-SIG] =?iso-8859-1?Q?Re:_Re:_[XML-SIG]_Redhat_RPM_for_PyXML_0.8.2=3F?=
Message-ID: <200304141816.h3EIG1Yt003676@conversent.net>

> Craeg K Strong <cstrong@arielpartners.com> writes:
> 
> > AttributeError: Distribution instance has no attribute 'get_license'

> In distutils/dist.py, I see the
> function
> 
>     def get_license(self):
>         return self.license or "UNKNOWN"
>     get_licence = get_license
> 
> which always gives a value. Do you have no function get_license in
> dist.py?

Yes, this function does not exist in Python 2.1.3 (win2K)
__revision__ = "$Id: dist.py,v 1.47 2001/03/31 02:41:01 akuchling Exp $"

I am sure that upgrading to Python 2.2.2 would fix this
problem, and I will certainly do this as soon as Zope
2.7 is released...

--Craeg
> 
> Regards,
> Martin
> 





From martin@v.loewis.de  Mon Apr 14 21:02:43 2003
From: martin@v.loewis.de (Martin v. =?iso-8859-15?q?L=F6wis?=)
Date: 14 Apr 2003 22:02:43 +0200
Subject: [XML-SIG] Re: Re: [XML-SIG] Redhat RPM for PyXML 0.8.2?
In-Reply-To: <200304141816.h3EIG1Yt003676@conversent.net>
References: <200304141816.h3EIG1Yt003676@conversent.net>
Message-ID: <m3ptnovod8.fsf@mira.informatik.hu-berlin.de>

Craeg Strong <cstrong@arielpartners.com> writes:

> Yes, this function does not exist in Python 2.1.3 (win2K)
> __revision__ 
> I am sure that upgrading to Python 2.2.2 would fix this
> problem, and I will certainly do this as soon as Zope
> 2.7 is released...

Ah, ok. So I guess you are more-or-less out of luck. We simply cannot
support building RPMs on Python 2.1, and Redhat 8: You either need an
older RPM package (where rpm -ba still works), or a newer Python
(where rpmbuild is used).

Replacing distutils wholesale should probably work, as well, but no
distutils release is forthcoming.

Regards,
Martin


From fss@forensicstrategy.com  Mon Apr 14 22:16:59 2003
From: fss@forensicstrategy.com (Forensic Strategy Newsletter)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 17:16:59 -0400
Subject: [XML-SIG] Forensic Strategy Data Recovery Newsletter: Vol 1 Issue 1
Message-ID: <1050355019.993@forensicstrategy.com>

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revealed about the case, the old data will need to be reviewed to see 
what has been discovered and how it is applicable to the case. In some 
cases, knowing what happened is more important than the actual data 
itself.

Example #1:
In a divorce case, a court order was given to the husband with 
instructions not to delete or destroy any data. The computer was to be 
picked up by a forensic investigator and reviewed for evidence per the 
court order. The husband promptly went home and deleted everything on 
the computer he thought would be incriminating.  After examining the 
computer, it was proven that he purposely deleted data after the court 
order. Since he violated the court order, this case could have easily 
escalated into more than just a divorce case for the husband. When the 
opposing attorney confronted the husband with this fact, the husband 
quickly decided to settle out of court and agreed to his soon to be 
ex-wife's demands.

Example #2:
The majority of work is often discovering how to look at the 
information and display it so that it makes sense to laymen. This also 
includes educating the attorney about the technical details so they can 
decide how to approach the case. It is of no value if the information 
is so complex that it can not be explained clearly.

In a recent case, a CD was stolen from a company. During the discovery 
period of the case, the defendant was ordered to make an EXACT copy of 
the original CD and deliver it to the plaintiff the same day.

It was noted that one of the files had been changed on the CD. On the 
CD there were several files that amounted to 500 megabytes. This brand 
of CD was only able to hold 650 megabytes. The specific file in 
question was a 200 megabyte file.

The defendants claim was that the CD was a CDRW (ReWritable CD) and 
that the file changed while viewing the CD. In this instance the 
changed file could not overwrite the existing file, but would be 
appended to the CD. As there was only 150 megabytes left, there was not 
enough space to append a 200 megabyte file. The defendant would have 
needed another 50 megabytes in order to make a change to the file on 
the same CD. Therefore, this was not an exact copy of the same CD that 
was taken.

Only a computer specialist with experience with a ReWritable CD would 
have realized this was not possible. The opposing attorney initially 
accepted the explanation; however, the computer specialist on the team 
revealed that evidence had been tampered with.

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From noreply@sourceforge.net  Tue Apr 15 21:43:05 2003
From: noreply@sourceforge.net (SourceForge.net)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 13:43:05 -0700
Subject: [XML-SIG] [ pyxml-Bugs-722097 ] newlines in attribute values not escaped when writing
Message-ID: <E195XGj-0001Yw-00@sc8-sf-web1.sourceforge.net>

Bugs item #722097, was opened at 2003-04-15 12:43
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Category: SAX
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Greg Chapman (glchapman)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: newlines in attribute values not escaped when writing

Initial Comment:
Neither xml.sax.writer.XmlWriter (nor PrettyPrinter) nor sax.saxutils.XmlGenerator escapes newlines embedded in attribute values (the values in the attrs passed to startElement).  I am no expert on XML, but I believe they should be escaped (see, for example, dom.ext.Printer which apparently does escape them in TranslateCdataAttr).

In general, I wonder if there should be some way to specify additional entities which can be passed to the calls to sax.saxutils.escape made by the different sax outputters?


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From Willems.luc@pandora.be  Thu Apr 17 18:51:56 2003
From: Willems.luc@pandora.be (luc willems)
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 19:51:56 +0200
Subject: [XML-SIG] Empty dom class returned after parsing a valid XML file
Message-ID: <200304171951.57335.Willems.luc@pandora.be>

	Hello All ,

i have a problem with pyexpat and sax2 parser of the pyxml-0.8.2 packages.

I developed a small script that manipulates some xmls files on my development 
system (SuSE 8.1 , python 2.2.1 , pyxml 0.8.2 ) . This script together with 
the test XML files worked fine.

But when i moved the script to a Soloris 2.8 with custom build python 2.2.2 
and pyxml 0.8.2 it doesn't work any more . to be precise ,
following code returns a 'None' instead of a DOM class for the "dom" variable

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#open input file or use STDIN
if opts.has_key("--in-file"):
   try:
      fi = open(opts["--in-file"], 'rb')
   except:
     # print help information and exit:
     (exctype,value,trace)=sys.exc_info()
     showerror("FILE",value)
     sys.exit(2)
else:
   fi = sys.stdin

# Try parsing the input file , exit if problems arise
try:
  reader = PyExpat.Reader()
  dom = reader.fromStream(fi)    <---- returns 'None' on solaris !!!!
except:
 (exctype,value,trace)=sys.exc_info()
 showerror("XML",value)
 sys.exit(3)

if dom == None:
   showerror("EXPAT","No DOM class after parsing")
   sys.exit(3)
- xml file ------------------------------------
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<config>
<master port='12345' host='master.ikke.be'/>
<node type='slave'/>
<snmp secret='you-dont-know-it' host='mieke.be'/>
<statepath>/tmp</statepath>
<test><![CDATA[function matchwo(a,b)]]></test>
</config>
-----------------------------------------------

When i run this code with a simple xml  file , it returns 'None' on solaris 
and a parsed DOM on my linux system. I tried using the PyExpat and Sax2 
parsed , both give the same problem.

Note : python and pyxml are both compiled with gcc-3.2.2 on solaris


	luc


From Juhapekka Tolvanen <juhtolv@iki.fi>  Sun Apr 20 14:48:06 2003
From: Juhapekka Tolvanen <juhtolv@iki.fi> (Juhapekka Tolvanen)
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 16:48:06 +0300
Subject: [XML-SIG] I use XBEL!!!
Message-ID: <20030420134806.GA12345@verso.st.jyu.fi>

Here is my link page. It is partially based on XBEL-technology.

http://iki.fi/links/

And it is free as a bird!

I want you to mention my link collection here:

http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/topics/xbel/

 * * *

I have some software ideas that would exploit XBEL-technology:

HTML2XBEL:
Take any HTML-file, pick all links from it and then write them as
XBEL-file.


XBEL-verifier:

Take XBEL-file. Check validity of its URLs. If some URL brings you
some WWW-page with redirection, then convert that URL in original
XBEL-file (except when explicitly forbidden in configuration file ( see
this redirection service: http://iki.fi/ )). If some link does not work,
write it down to separated database. If some link seems nonfunctional
ten times, remove it completely.

Would ypu please implement these ideas as free software?


-- 
Juhapekka "naula" Tolvanen * * http colon slash slash iki dot fi slash juhtolv
"Neque porro quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur,
adipisci velit, sed quia non numquam eius modi tempora incidunt ut labore et
dolore magnam aliquam quaerat voluptatem."                              Cicero


From Juhapekka Tolvanen <juhtolv@iki.fi>  Sun Apr 20 14:51:13 2003
From: Juhapekka Tolvanen <juhtolv@iki.fi> (Juhapekka Tolvanen)
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 16:51:13 +0300
Subject: [XML-SIG] Re: I use XBEL!!!
In-Reply-To: <20030420134806.GA12345@verso.st.jyu.fi>
References: <20030420134806.GA12345@verso.st.jyu.fi>
Message-ID: <20030420135113.GA12664@verso.st.jyu.fi>

On Sun, 20 Apr 2003, +16:49:47 EEST (UTC +0300),
Juhapekka Tolvanen <juhtolv@cc.jyu.fi> pressed some keys:

> Here is my link page. It is partially based on XBEL-technology.
> 
> http://iki.fi/links/

Argh! This is the right URL:

http://iki.fi/juhtolv/links/


-- 
Juhapekka "naula" Tolvanen * * http colon slash slash iki dot fi slash juhtolv
"Neque porro quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur,
adipisci velit, sed quia non numquam eius modi tempora incidunt ut labore et
dolore magnam aliquam quaerat voluptatem."                              Cicero


From jh@web.de  Sun Apr 20 14:54:05 2003
From: jh@web.de (Juergen Hermann)
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 15:54:05 +0200
Subject: [XML-SIG] I use XBEL!!!
In-Reply-To: <20030420134806.GA12345@verso.st.jyu.fi>
Message-ID: <E197FGH-00048z-00@smtp.web.de>

>Take=20XBEL-file.=20Check=20validity=20of=20its=20URLs.

See=20
http://twistedmatrix.com/users/jh.twistd/python/moin.cgi/J_fcrgenHermann


Ciao,=20J=FCrgen




From noreply@sourceforge.net  Mon Apr 21 15:16:33 2003
From: noreply@sourceforge.net (SourceForge.net)
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 07:16:33 -0700
Subject: [XML-SIG] [ pyxml-Bugs-725010 ] Script text not contained in script element
Message-ID: <E197c5x-0000Nn-00@sc8-sf-web2.sourceforge.net>

Bugs item #725010, was opened at 2003-04-21 10:16
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Category: DOM
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: vincent marchetti (vincemarch)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Script text not contained in script element

Initial Comment:
This appears in PyXML 0.8.2, the xml.dom.html module

Because the list under the key 'script' in the
dictionary xml.dom.html.HTML_DTD is empty (as defined
in the module), when an html file is parsed into a DOM
tree the contents of a script element appear as a
sibling of the script element, not as a child.

The following fixes this behavior at run -time: (before
parsing file)

...
xml.dom.html.HTML_DTD['script'].append('#PCDATA')
...

My own reading of the HTML 4.01 DTD <a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/scripts.html#edef-SCRIPT">
indicates this is the correct behavior.

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From reagle@mit.edu  Mon Apr 21 16:36:06 2003
From: reagle@mit.edu (Joseph Reagle)
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 11:36:06 -0400
Subject: [XML-SIG] pyxml minidom: I can remove and append, but not replace
Message-ID: <200304211135.59621.reagle@mit.edu>

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I have a snippet that replacing a title element with a new element with a 
modified one (base on an amazon query) -- if that title element already 
exists. However, I can't do an insertBefore or replace for some odd reason:

            for property in book_dtd:   # step through the DTD
                feature = _get_feature(property,book)
                if property == "title":
                    r_title = doc.createElementNS(book_ns,"title")
                    r_title.appendChild(doc.createTextNode(title))
                    if feature:
                        book.appendChild(r_title)
                        book.removeChild(feature)
#                         book.replaceChild(feature,r_title)
                    else:
                        book.appendChild(r_title)

If I were to comment the "book.{append,remove}Child" and uncomment the 
book.replaceChild I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./pybook.py", line 163, in ?
    bookAugment(doc)
  File "./pybook.py", line 100, in bookAugment
    book.replaceChild(feature,r_title)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/minidom.py", line 145, 
in replaceChild
    raise xml.dom.NotFoundErr()
xml.dom.NotFoundErr: Node does not exist in this context

The node is using the same namespace, and I've used the replaceChild in 
other cases (where I'm actually using a node from a different XML 
instance!) .py and test file attached



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"""Python wrapper


for Amazon web APIs

This module allows you to access Amazon's web APIs,
to do things like search Amazon and get the results programmatically.
Described here:
  http://www.amazon.com/webservices

You need a Amazon-provided license key to use these services.
Follow the link above to get one.  These functions will look in
several places (in this order) for the license key:
- the "license_key" argument of each function
- the module-level LICENSE_KEY variable (call setLicense once to set it)
- an environment variable called AMAZON_LICENSE_KEY
- a file called ".amazonkey" in the current directory
- a file called "amazonkey.txt" in the current directory
- a file called ".amazonkey" in your home directory
- a file called "amazonkey.txt" in your home directory
- a file called ".amazonkey" in the same directory as amazon.py
- a file called "amazonkey.txt" in the same directory as amazon.py

Sample usage:
>>> import amazon
>>> amazon.setLicense('...') # must get your own key!
>>> pythonBooks = amazon.searchByKeyword('Python')
>>> pythonBooks[0].ProductName
u'Learning Python (Help for Programmers)'
>>> pythonBooks[0].URL
...
>>> pythonBooks[0].OurPrice
...

Other available functions:
- browseBestSellers
- searchByASIN
- searchByUPC
- searchByAuthor
- searchByArtist
- searchByActor
- searchByDirector
- searchByManufacturer
- searchByListMania
- searchSimilar
- searchByWishlist

Other usage notes:
- Most functions can take product_line as well, see source for possible values
- All functions can take type="lite" to get less detail in results
- All functions can take page=N to get second, third, fourth page of results
- All functions can take license_key="XYZ", instead of setting it globally
- All functions can take http_proxy="http://x/y/z" which overrides your system setting
"""

__author__ = "Mark Pilgrim (f8dy@diveintomark.org)"
__version__ = "0.5"
__cvsversion__ = "$Revision: 1.6 $"[11:-2]
__date__ = "$Date: 2003/04/04 03:08:34 $"[7:-2]
__copyright__ = "Copyright (c) 2002 Mark Pilgrim"
__license__ = "Python"
# Powersearch and return object type fix by Joseph Reagle <geek@goatee.net>

from xml.dom import minidom
import os, sys, getopt, cgi, urllib
try:
    import timeoutsocket # http://www.timo-tasi.org/python/timeoutsocket.py
    timeoutsocket.setDefaultSocketTimeout(10)
except ImportError:
    pass

LICENSE_KEY = None
HTTP_PROXY = None

# don't touch the rest of these constants
class AmazonError(Exception): pass
class NoLicenseKey(Exception): pass
_amazonfile1 = ".amazonkey"
_amazonfile2 = "amazonkey.txt"
_licenseLocations = (
    (lambda key: key, 'passed to the function in license_key variable'),
    (lambda key: LICENSE_KEY, 'module-level LICENSE_KEY variable (call setLicense to set it)'),
    (lambda key: os.environ.get('AMAZON_LICENSE_KEY', None), 'an environment variable called AMAZON_LICENSE_KEY'),
    (lambda key: _contentsOf(os.getcwd(), _amazonfile1), '%s in the current directory' % _amazonfile1),
    (lambda key: _contentsOf(os.getcwd(), _amazonfile2), '%s in the current directory' % _amazonfile2),
    (lambda key: _contentsOf(os.environ.get('HOME', ''), _amazonfile1), '%s in your home directory' % _amazonfile1),
    (lambda key: _contentsOf(os.environ.get('HOME', ''), _amazonfile2), '%s in your home directory' % _amazonfile2),
    (lambda key: _contentsOf(_getScriptDir(), _amazonfile1), '%s in the amazon.py directory' % _amazonfile1),
    (lambda key: _contentsOf(_getScriptDir(), _amazonfile2), '%s in the amazon.py directory' % _amazonfile2)
    )

## administrative functions
def version():
    print """PyAmazon %(__version__)s
%(__copyright__)s
released %(__date__)s
""" % globals()

## utility functions
def setLicense(license_key):
    """set license key"""
    global LICENSE_KEY
    LICENSE_KEY = license_key

def getLicense(license_key = None):
    """get license key

    license key can come from any number of locations;
    see module docs for search order"""
    for get, location in _licenseLocations:
        rc = get(license_key)
        if rc: return rc
    raise NoLicenseKey, 'get a license key at http://www.amazon.com/webservices'

def setProxy(http_proxy):
    """set HTTP proxy"""
    global HTTP_PROXY
    HTTP_PROXY = http_proxy

def getProxy(http_proxy = None):
    """get HTTP proxy"""
    return http_proxy or HTTP_PROXY

def getProxies(http_proxy = None):
    http_proxy = getProxy(http_proxy)
    if http_proxy:
        proxies = {"http": http_proxy}
    else:
        proxies = None
    return proxies

def _contentsOf(dirname, filename):
    filename = os.path.join(dirname, filename)
    if not os.path.exists(filename): return None
    fsock = open(filename)
    contents = fsock.read()
    fsock.close()
    return contents

def _getScriptDir():
    if __name__ == '__main__':
        return os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0]))
    else:
        return os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(sys.modules[__name__].__file__))

class Bag: pass

def unmarshal(element):
    rc = Bag()
    if isinstance(element, minidom.Element) and (element.tagName == 'Details'):
        rc.URL = element.attributes["url"].value
    childElements = [e for e in element.childNodes if isinstance(e, minidom.Element)]
    if childElements:
        for child in childElements:
            key = child.tagName
            if hasattr(rc, key):
                if type(getattr(rc, key)) <> type([]):
                    setattr(rc, key, [getattr(rc, key)])
                setattr(rc, key, getattr(rc, key) + [unmarshal(child)])
            elif child.tagName in ['Details']:
                # make the first Details element a list
                setattr(rc,key,[unmarshal(child)])
                #dbg: because otherwise 'hasattr' only tests
                #dbg: on the second occurence: if there's a
                #dbg: single return to a query, it's not a
                #dbg: list. This module should always
                #dbg: return a list of Details objects.
            else:
                setattr(rc, key, unmarshal(child))
    else:
        rc = "".join([e.data for e in element.childNodes if isinstance(e, minidom.Text)])
        if element.tagName == 'SalesRank':
            rc = int(rc.replace(',', ''))
    return rc

def buildURL(search_type, keyword, product_line, type, page, license_key):
    url = "http://xml.amazon.com/onca/xml?v=1.0&f=xml&t=webservices-20"
    url += "&dev-t=%s" % license_key.strip()
    url += "&type=%s" % type
    if page:
        url += "&page=%s" % page
    if product_line:
        url += "&mode=%s" % product_line
    url += "&%s=%s" % (search_type, urllib.quote(keyword))
    #dbg: title searches with a ":" yields no results
    print url
    return url


## main functions


def search(search_type, keyword, product_line, type="heavy", page=None,
           license_key = None, http_proxy = None, return_xml = 0):
    """search Amazon

    You need a license key to call this function; see
    http://www.amazon.com/webservices
    to get one.  Then you can either pass it to
    this function every time, or set it globally; see the module docs for details.

    Parameters:
    keyword - keyword to search
    search_type - in (KeywordSearch, BrowseNodeSearch, AsinSearch, UpcSearch, AuthorSearch, ArtistSearch, ActorSearch, DirectorSearch, ManufacturerSearch, ListManiaSearch, SimilaritySearch)
    product_line - type of product to search for.  restrictions based on search_type
        UpcSearch - in (music, classical)
        AuthorSearch - must be "books"
        ArtistSearch - in (music, classical)
        ActorSearch - in (dvd, vhs, video)
        DirectorSearch - in (dvd, vhs, video)
        ManufacturerSearch - in (electronics, kitchen, videogames, software, photo, pc-hardware)
    http_proxy (optional) - address of HTTP proxy to use for sending and receiving SOAP messages

    Returns: list of Bags, each Bag may contain the following attributes:
      Asin - Amazon ID ("ASIN" number) of this item
      Authors - list of authors
      Availability - "available", etc.
      BrowseList - list of related categories
      Catalog - catalog type ("Book", etc)
      CollectiblePrice - ?, format "$34.95"
      ImageUrlLarge - URL of large image of this item
      ImageUrlMedium - URL of medium image of this item
      ImageUrlSmall - URL of small image of this item
      Isbn - ISBN number
      ListPrice - list price, format "$34.95"
      Lists - list of ListMania lists that include this item
      Manufacturer - manufacturer
      Media - media ("Paperback", "Audio CD", etc)
      NumMedia - number of different media types in which this item is available
      OurPrice - Amazon price, format "$24.47"
      ProductName - name of this item
      ReleaseDate - release date, format "09 April, 1999"
      Reviews - reviews (AvgCustomerRating, plus list of CustomerReview with Rating, Summary, Content)
      SalesRank - sales rank (integer)
      SimilarProducts - list of Product, which is ASIN number
      ThirdPartyNewPrice - ?, format "$34.95"
      URL - URL of this item
    """
    license_key = getLicense(license_key)
    url = buildURL(search_type, keyword, product_line, type, page, license_key)
    proxies = getProxies(http_proxy)
    u = urllib.FancyURLopener(proxies)
    usock = u.open(url)
    xmldoc = minidom.parse(usock)

#     from xml.dom.ext import PrettyPrint
#     PrettyPrint(xmldoc)

    usock.close()
    if return_xml:
        return xmldoc
    else:
        data = unmarshal(xmldoc).ProductInfo
        if hasattr(data, 'ErrorMsg'):
            raise AmazonError, data.ErrorMsg
        else:
            return data.Details

def searchByKeyword(keyword, product_line="books", type="heavy", page=1, license_key=None, http_proxy=None):
    return search("KeywordSearch", keyword, product_line, type, page, license_key, http_proxy)

def browseBestSellers(browse_node, product_line="books", type="heavy", page=1, license_key=None, http_proxy=None):
    return search("BrowseNodeSearch", browse_node, product_line, type, page, license_key, http_proxy)

def searchByASIN(ASIN, type="heavy", license_key=None, http_proxy=None):
    return search("AsinSearch", ASIN, None, type, None, license_key, http_proxy)

def searchByUPC(UPC, type="heavy", license_key=None, http_proxy=None):
    return search("UpcSearch", UPC, None, type, None, license_key, http_proxy)

def searchByAuthor(author, type="heavy", page=1, license_key=None, http_proxy=None):
    return search("AuthorSearch", author, "books", type, page, license_key, http_proxy)

def searchByArtist(artist, product_line="music", type="heavy", page=1, license_key=None, http_proxy=None):
    if product_line not in ("music", "classical"):
        raise AmazonError, "product_line must be in ('music', 'classical')"
    return search("ArtistSearch", artist, product_line, type, page, license_key, http_proxy)

def searchByActor(actor, product_line="dvd", type="heavy", page=1, license_key=None, http_proxy=None):
    if product_line not in ("dvd", "vhs", "video"):
        raise AmazonError, "product_line must be in ('dvd', 'vhs', 'video')"
    return search("ActorSearch", actor, product_line, type, page, license_key, http_proxy)

def searchByDirector(director, product_line="dvd", type="heavy", page=1, license_key=None, http_proxy=None):
    if product_line not in ("dvd", "vhs", "video"):
        raise AmazonError, "product_line must be in ('dvd', 'vhs', 'video')"
    return search("DirectorSearch", director, product_line, type, page, license_key, http_proxy)

def searchByManufacturer(manufacturer, product_line="pc-hardware", type="heavy", page=1, license_key=None, http_proxy=None):
    if product_line not in ("electronics", "kitchen", "videogames", "software", "photo", "pc-hardware"):
        raise AmazonError, "product_line must be in ('electronics', 'kitchen', 'videogames', 'software', 'photo', 'pc-hardware')"
    return search("ManufacturerSearch", manufacturer, product_line, type, page, license_key, http_proxy)

def searchByListMania(listManiaID, type="heavy", page=1, license_key=None, http_proxy=None):
    return search("ListManiaSearch", listManiaID, None, type, page, license_key, http_proxy)

def searchSimilar(ASIN, type="heavy", page=1, license_key=None, http_proxy=None):
    return search("SimilaritySearch", ASIN, None, type, page, license_key, http_proxy)

def searchByWishlist(wishlistID, type="heavy", page=1, license_key=None, http_proxy=None):
    return search("WishlistSearch", wishlistID, None, type, page, license_key, http_proxy)

def searchByPower(keyword, product_line="books", type="heavy", page=1, license_key=None, http_proxy=None, return_xml = 0):
    return search("PowerSearch", keyword, product_line, type, page, license_key, http_proxy, return_xml)
    # >>> RecentKing = amazon.searchByPower('author:Stephen King and pubdate:2003')
    # >>> SnowCrash = amazon.searchByPower('title:Snow Crash')

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Content-Type: text/x-python;
  charset="us-ascii";
  name="pybook.py"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="pybook.py"

#!/usr/bin/env python
# http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/dom-node-objects.html

def bookAugment(doc):
    import amazon, time

    def getText(node):
        node.normalize()
        rc = node.firstChild.data
        return _normalizeWhitespace(rc)

    def replaceText(feature,value):
        for node in feature.childNodes:
            if node.nodeType == node.TEXT_NODE:
                feature.removeChild(node)
        print "***value is ", type(value), value
        feature.appendChild(doc.createTextNode(value))

    def buildQuery(query, property, value):
        if value != "":
            if query != "": query += " and "
            query += "%s: %s" %(property, value)
        return query

    def _get_feature(property,book):
        """_get_feature returns a book childNode corresponding
        to the property. This is extremely clumsy iterating
        over the books children for every property"""
        for feature in _childrenElements(book):
            print "testing '%s' against '%s'" %(property,feature.localName)
            if feature.localName == property:
                return feature

    def _splitTitle(title):
        try:
            title,subtitle = getText(ProductName).split(": ",1)
        except ValueError:
            title = getText(ProductName)
            subtitle = ""
        print "title = '%s', subtitle = '%s'" %(title, subtitle)
        return title, subtitle

    _childrenElements = lambda node: [n for n in node.childNodes
               if n.nodeType == n.ELEMENT_NODE] # is node element
    _normalizeWhitespace = lambda text: ' '.join(text.split())
    _normalizeIsbn = lambda chars: chars.replace('-','')
    query = ""          # the query to pass to Amazon searchByPower

    bookcase = doc.getElementsByTagName("bookcase").pop()
    collection = doc.getElementsByTagName("collection").pop()
    for book in _childrenElements(collection):

        # Build the query from existing title, isbn, and author
        for feature in _childrenElements(book):
            if feature.localName == "title":
                title = getText(feature)
                query = buildQuery(query, "title", title)
            if feature.localName == "authors":
                for author in _childrenElements(feature):
                    author = getText(author)
                    query = buildQuery(query, "author", author)
            if feature.localName == "isbn":
                isbn = _normalizeIsbn(getText(feature))
                query = buildQuery(query, "isbn", isbn)

        # Perform the query
        print "*** query = ", query.encode('utf-8')
        try:
            #results = amazon.searchByPower('author:Stephenson and title:Snow Crash')
            results = amazon.searchByPower(query,return_xml=1)
        except amazon.AmazonError, e:
            print "*** ERRRRRROR", e
        query = ""          # Reset query
        time.sleep(.7)      # Amazon only permits one query per second

        # Augment Book with results of query by iterating over
        # the bookcase DTD and replacing/inserting elements
        # dbg: I know this algorithm sucks.
        Details = results.getElementsByTagName("Details")
        if len(Details) == 1:
            book_ns = "http://periapsis.org/bookcase/"
            book_dtd = ("title", "subtitle", "authors", "isbn")
#             book_dtd = ("title", "subtitle", "authors", "binding", "pur_date",
#                 "pur_price", "publisher", "edition", "cr_years", "pub_year",
#                 "isbn", "lccn", "pages", "languages", "genres", "keywords",
#                 "series", "series_num", "condition", "signed", "read", "gift",
#                 "loaned", "rating", "comments")
            ProductName = results.getElementsByTagName("ProductName")[0]
            print type(ProductName)

            title, subtitle = _splitTitle(getText(ProductName).split(": ",1))
            for property in book_dtd:   # step through the DTD
                feature = _get_feature(property,book)
                if property == "title":
                    r_title = doc.createElementNS(book_ns,"title")
                    r_title.appendChild(doc.createTextNode(title))
                    if feature:
                        book.appendChild(r_title)
                        book.removeChild(feature)
#                         book.replaceChild(feature,r_title)
                    else:
                        book.appendChild(r_title)

                elif property == "subtitle" and subtitle != "":
                    r_subtitle = doc.createElementNS(book_ns,"subtitle")
                    r_subtitle.appendChild(doc.createTextNode(subtitle))
                    if feature:
                        book.appendChild(r_subtitle)
                        book.removeChild(feature)
                    else:
                        book.appendChild(r_subtitle)

                elif property == "authors":
                    # remove my children
                    for author in _childrenElements(feature):
                        feature.removeChild(author)
                    # add the children from the amazon result
                    for r_author in results.getElementsByTagName("Author"):
                        # lowercase the results to the bookcase convention
                        r_author.tagName = "author"
                        feature.appendChild(r_author)
                elif property == "isbn":
                    r_isbn = results.getElementsByTagName("Isbn")[0]
                    r_isbn.tagName = "isbn"
                    if feature:
                        book.replaceChild(feature,r_isbn)
                    else:
                        book.appendChild(r_isbn)
    PrettyPrint(bookcase)


def print_usage():
    print "pybookcase infile.xml outfile.xml"
    print "pybookcase will augment a bookcase XML file with other information from "
    print "the python interface"

if __name__ == "__main__":

    import getopt, sys
    mode = 'xml'

    try:
        (options,files) = getopt.getopt (sys.argv[1:],"h")
    except getopt.error:
        print_usage()
    for (option,value) in options:
        pass
        if option == '-h':
            print_usage()
    try:
        infd = open(files[0])
    except IndexError:
        infd = sys.stdin
    try:
        outfd = open(files[1], 'w')
    except IndexError:
        outfd = sys.stdout

    from xml.dom import minidom
    from xml.dom.ext import PrettyPrint

    doc = minidom.parse(infd)
    bookAugment(doc)

    infd.close()
    outfd.close()


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  name="test.bc"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="test.bc"

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE bookcase SYSTEM "bookcase.dtd">
<bookcase xmlns="http://periapsis.org/bookcase/" syntaxVersion="2" >
 <collection unitTitle="Books" title="Converted Books" unit="book" >
  <book>
   <title>The Diamond Age</title>
   <subtitle>A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer</subtitle>
   <authors>
    <author>Neal Stephenson</author>
   </authors>
   <genres>
    <genre>SciFi</genre>
   </genres>
   <read/>
  </book>
  <book>
   <title>Vampire Book</title>
   <subtitle></subtitle>
   <authors>
    <author>J. Gordon Melton</author>
   </authors>
   <genres>
    <genre>History</genre>
   </genres>
   <read/>
  </book>
  <book>
   <title>Road Warriors</title>
   <subtitle>Dreams and Nightmares Along the Information Highway</subtitle>
   <authors>
    <author>Burstein</author>
    <author>Kline</author>
   </authors>
   <genres>
    <genre>History</genre>
   </genres>
   <read/>
  </book>
 </collection>
</bookcase>

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From jhooton@asi-ez.com  Tue Apr 22 10:26:52 2003
From: jhooton@asi-ez.com (info@asi-ez.com)
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 09:26:52
Subject: [XML-SIG] ASI Expands Automation Component Offering
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From and-xml@doxdesk.com  Tue Apr 22 16:22:55 2003
From: and-xml@doxdesk.com (Andrew Clover)
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 15:22:55 +0000
Subject: [XML-SIG] pyxml minidom: I can remove and append, but not replace
In-Reply-To: <200304211135.59621.reagle@mit.edu>
References: <200304211135.59621.reagle@mit.edu>
Message-ID: <20030422152255.GA3638@doxdesk.com>

Joseph Reagle <reagle@mit.edu> wrote:

> if feature:
>     book.replaceChild(feature,r_title)
> else:
>     book.appendChild(r_title)

Whoops! Very common mistake, this - you've got the order of the parameters
to replaceChild the wrong way round. For reasons known only to W3C, the
newChild parameter goes first.

> xml.dom.NotFoundErr: Node does not exist in this context

Because it's looking for 'r_title' to be a child node of 'book' in order to
remove it, but it's not there.

-- 
Andrew Clover
mailto:and@doxdesk.com
http://www.doxdesk.com/


From dkuhlman@cutter.rexx.com  Wed Apr 23 01:06:13 2003
From: dkuhlman@cutter.rexx.com (Dave Kuhlman)
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 17:06:13 -0700
Subject: [XML-SIG] Python support for Amazon Web services
Message-ID: <20030422170613.A8214@cutter.rexx.com>

I've developed a small amount of Python support for the
XML-over-HTTP mode of Amazon Web services.  Amazon describes this
as their REST mode.

The support I've developed consists mostly consists of Python code
that helps to parse and process the Amazon WS XML documents.

Also, to produce this support I used generateDS.py (see:
http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman/#generateDS). Therefore, I needed
XML Schema documents.  So, being a Calvinist [1], I decided
implement generateXsd.py, which extracts an XML Schema from an XML
instance document.  It's included in the distribution.

There is a document describing this support at:

    http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman/amazon_ws_support.html

And the distribution file is at:

    http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman/amazon_ws_support-1.0.tar.gz

The Amazon WS developer's kit is available at:

    http://www.amazon.com/webservices

  - Dave

[1] Calvin and Hobbes, the comic strip --  Once, when Calvin's Mom
tried to force him to clean up his room, Calvin decided to invent a
robot to do the work.  After much struggle, Hobbes asked him:
"Wouldn't it be less work to just clean your room yourself?" Calvin
replied, without looking up: "It's only work if they make you do
it."

-- 
Dave Kuhlman
dkuhlman@rexx.com
http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman


From tongucyumruk@interaktif.gen.tr  Wed Apr 23 12:40:57 2003
From: tongucyumruk@interaktif.gen.tr (=?iso-8859-9?Q?Tongu=E7?= Yumruk)
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 14:40:57 +0300
Subject: [XML-SIG] Removing Whitespace
Message-ID: <20030423114057.GA770@Serafettin.fazlamesai.net>

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Hi,

I'm new to Python & XML processing, and I'm in trouble with whitespace. I
use xml.dom to process xml and Sax2.Reader() from xml.dom.ext.reader. I
don't want the whitespace interpreted as a text node. Although the
Reader() class have some option like keepAllWs I don't think it really
does what I need.

When I browsed the archives the only whitespace problem I can see is at
1999 and there is a strip_whitespace function that solved it. The roblem
is: There is no strip_whitespace in Python 2.1.3 (the default in
Debian).

I know that I can write a function to do this but I want to use the
standard approach for it (if possible).

Thanks

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From Alexandre.Fayolle@logilab.fr  Wed Apr 23 12:55:18 2003
From: Alexandre.Fayolle@logilab.fr (Alexandre Fayolle)
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 13:55:18 +0200
Subject: [XML-SIG] Removing Whitespace
In-Reply-To: <20030423114057.GA770@Serafettin.fazlamesai.net>
References: <20030423114057.GA770@Serafettin.fazlamesai.net>
Message-ID: <20030423115518.GA10523@calvin>

On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 02:40:57PM +0300, Tonguç Yumruk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm new to Python & XML processing, and I'm in trouble with whitespace. I
> use xml.dom to process xml and Sax2.Reader() from xml.dom.ext.reader. I
> don't want the whitespace interpreted as a text node. Although the
> Reader() class have some option like keepAllWs I don't think it really
> does what I need.

In order to have Sax handle whitespace for you, you need:
 * a validating parser
 * a DTD for your document

You need to install python-xml on Debian to have a validating parser
(there are no validating parsers in python-xmlbase). 

With this package, you can get a validating parser with the following
code :

from xml.sax.sax2ext import XMLValParserFactory
parser = XMLValParserFactory.make_parser()

Then attach your handlers as usual. Ignorable whitespace should be
reported to the ContentHandler.ignorableWhitespace() method if you
provided it, and not to the characters() method.

-- 
Alexandre Fayolle
LOGILAB, Paris (France).
http://www.logilab.com   http://www.logilab.fr  http://www.logilab.org
Développement logiciel avancé - Intelligence Artificielle - Formations


From tongucyumruk@interaktif.gen.tr  Wed Apr 23 14:37:36 2003
From: tongucyumruk@interaktif.gen.tr (=?iso-8859-9?Q?Tongu=E7?= Yumruk)
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 16:37:36 +0300
Subject: [XML-SIG] Removing Whitespace
In-Reply-To: <20030423115518.GA10523@calvin>
References: <20030423114057.GA770@Serafettin.fazlamesai.net> <20030423115518.GA10523@calvin>
Message-ID: <20030423133736.GA1185@Serafettin.fazlamesai.net>

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Thanks, but I don't use Sax, I just use the Sax2 reader from xml.dom.ext
package to build a dom tree. I'm looking for a function that will remove
whitespace nodes from my dom tree.

Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 01:55:18PM +0200 Tarihinde Alexandre Fayolle Demi=FEki=
 :
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 02:40:57PM +0300, Tongu=E7 Yumruk wrote:
> > Hi,
> >=20
> > I'm new to Python & XML processing, and I'm in trouble with whitespace.=
 I
> > use xml.dom to process xml and Sax2.Reader() from xml.dom.ext.reader. I
> > don't want the whitespace interpreted as a text node. Although the
> > Reader() class have some option like keepAllWs I don't think it really
> > does what I need.
>=20
> In order to have Sax handle whitespace for you, you need:
>  * a validating parser
>  * a DTD for your document
>=20
> You need to install python-xml on Debian to have a validating parser
> (there are no validating parsers in python-xmlbase).=20
>=20
> With this package, you can get a validating parser with the following
> code :
>=20
> from xml.sax.sax2ext import XMLValParserFactory
> parser =3D XMLValParserFactory.make_parser()
>=20
> Then attach your handlers as usual. Ignorable whitespace should be
> reported to the ContentHandler.ignorableWhitespace() method if you
> provided it, and not to the characters() method.
>=20
> --=20
> Alexandre Fayolle
> LOGILAB, Paris (France).
> http://www.logilab.com   http://www.logilab.fr  http://www.logilab.org
> D=E9veloppement logiciel avanc=E9 - Intelligence Artificielle - Formations
>=20
> _______________________________________________
> XML-SIG maillist  -  XML-SIG@python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/xml-sig

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From Alexandre.Fayolle@logilab.fr  Wed Apr 23 14:47:41 2003
From: Alexandre.Fayolle@logilab.fr (Alexandre Fayolle)
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 15:47:41 +0200
Subject: [XML-SIG] Removing Whitespace
In-Reply-To: <20030423133736.GA1185@Serafettin.fazlamesai.net>
References: <20030423114057.GA770@Serafettin.fazlamesai.net> <20030423115518.GA10523@calvin> <20030423133736.GA1185@Serafettin.fazlamesai.net>
Message-ID: <20030423134741.GB11877@calvin>

On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 04:37:36PM +0300, Tonguç Yumruk wrote:
> Thanks, but I don't use Sax, I just use the Sax2 reader from xml.dom.ext
> package to build a dom tree. I'm looking for a function that will remove
> whitespace nodes from my dom tree.

Sorry for the too-quick-reading.

Have you tried to use the xml.dom.ext.StripXml function on your
document? It should do exactly what you want.

-- 
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LOGILAB, Paris (France).
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From tongucyumruk@interaktif.gen.tr  Wed Apr 23 15:15:06 2003
From: tongucyumruk@interaktif.gen.tr (=?iso-8859-9?Q?Tongu=E7?= Yumruk)
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 17:15:06 +0300
Subject: [XML-SIG] Removing Whitespace
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Oh, it's the cure... Thanks a lot...

Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 03:47:41PM +0200 Tarihinde Alexandre Fayolle Demi=FEki=
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> On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 04:37:36PM +0300, Tongu=E7 Yumruk wrote:
> > Thanks, but I don't use Sax, I just use the Sax2 reader from xml.dom.ext
> > package to build a dom tree. I'm looking for a function that will remove
> > whitespace nodes from my dom tree.
>=20
> Sorry for the too-quick-reading.
>=20
> Have you tried to use the xml.dom.ext.StripXml function on your
> document? It should do exactly what you want.
>=20
> --=20
> Alexandre Fayolle
> LOGILAB, Paris (France).
> http://www.logilab.com   http://www.logilab.fr  http://www.logilab.org
> D=E9veloppement logiciel avanc=E9 - Intelligence Artificielle - Formations
>=20
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> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/xml-sig

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From nick@isilon.com  Thu Apr 24 20:17:40 2003
From: nick@isilon.com (Nicholas M. Kirsch)
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 12:17:40 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [XML-SIG] Subclassing xml.dom.minidom
Message-ID: <20030424121313.R7584@fireblade.isilon.com>

I have looked for information (er.. I've googled) and have not found any
examples of anyone subclassing minidom.

I want to modify the behavior of some of the methods in Node, etc.

Naturally, I want xml.dom.minidom.parse to return objects which are all
subclassed as well.

Is this possible? What is the best way to do this?

Thanks.

Nick


From fdrake@acm.org  Thu Apr 24 20:31:45 2003
From: fdrake@acm.org (Fred L. Drake, Jr.)
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 15:31:45 -0400
Subject: [XML-SIG] Subclassing xml.dom.minidom
In-Reply-To: <20030424121313.R7584@fireblade.isilon.com>
References: <20030424121313.R7584@fireblade.isilon.com>
Message-ID: <16040.15265.307632.75018@grendel.zope.com>

Nicholas M. Kirsch writes:
 > I have looked for information (er.. I've googled) and have not found any
 > examples of anyone subclassing minidom.
 > 
 > I want to modify the behavior of some of the methods in Node, etc.
 > 
 > Naturally, I want xml.dom.minidom.parse to return objects which are all
 > subclassed as well.

There is some information in the Python/XML Reference Guide, included
with the PyXML sources.  I don't know that there's a formatted version
of the document available online, unfortunately.

Depending on just which node types you want to affect, this may be
fairly easy, or it may be more painful.  Changing Text nodes will be
most difficult if you intend to use xml.dom.xmlbuilder without further
subclassing.

At the very least, you can expect to subclass the DOMImplementation
and Document classes (to control the factory functions) and the
specific node types you want to affect.

I'll be glad to try and answer further questions, but you'll need to
be more specific.


  -Fred

-- 
Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fdrake at acm.org>
PythonLabs at Zope Corporation


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From andrew.ittner@usa.net  Sat Apr 26 16:53:52 2003
From: andrew.ittner@usa.net (Andrew Ittner)
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 08:53:52 -0700
Subject: [XML-SIG] Round-tripping HTML fragment to XML node
Message-ID: <000b01c30c0c$08c3dae0$7b7ba8c0@attbi.com>

I have an HTML fragment: <P>this is<BR>a paragraph</P>
I want to convert it to XHTML: <p>this is<br/>a paragraph</p>
And store it as a Node in an XML document.

Then, I want to pull the Node back out and convert back to an HTML fragment.

I want to do this automatically (not using regexp, etc.) because:
-each HTML fragment is a separate weblog entry (for Yet Another Weblog Maker
(c))
-I store it in XML to publish using XSL
-even though I'm probably not going to use any other singletons besides <BR>
& <IMG>, I want the parser to handle conversion to well-formed XML
automagically
-my HTML viewer (courtesy wxPython) needs HTML and cannot understand XHTML

I tried converting the fragment to a full XHTML document (works OK), pulling
the body element's content nodes out (can't), and copying them to the XML
doc (nope).  And the reverse is failing on converting XHTML back to HTML.

Since I've only used PyXML's xml.dom.minidom for XML work, I haven't yet
figured out how to do this.  Any ideas?

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From tpassin@comcast.net  Sat Apr 26 18:20:55 2003
From: tpassin@comcast.net (Thomas B. Passin)
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 13:20:55 -0400
Subject: [XML-SIG] Round-tripping HTML fragment to XML node
References: <000b01c30c0c$08c3dae0$7b7ba8c0@attbi.com>
Message-ID: <003501c30c18$31f20980$6401a8c0@tbp1>

[Andrew Ittner]

> I have an HTML fragment: <P>this is<BR>a paragraph</P>
> I want to convert it to XHTML: <p>this is<br/>a paragraph</p>
> And store it as a Node in an XML document.
>
> Then, I want to pull the Node back out and convert back to an HTML
fragment.
>
> I want to do this automatically (not using regexp, etc.) because:
> -each HTML fragment is a separate weblog entry (for Yet Another Weblog
Maker
> (c))
> -I store it in XML to publish using XSL

If you are going to use xslt to produce the results, you do not have to do
anything different except use the html output method in your stylesheet.
That will output the html that you want.

Otherwise, I would try adding a single space to those normally empty nodes -
e.g.

<img src='...'> </img>

Strictly speaking, the img and br elements are supposed to be empty, but
most browsers will accept a space and I bet the wxWindows (which is wrapped
by wxPython) viewer will too.  That would be a lot easier than fussing
around or writing a custom serializer.

> -even though I'm probably not going to use any other singletons besides
<BR>
> & <IMG>, I want the parser to handle conversion to well-formed XML
> automagically
> -my HTML viewer (courtesy wxPython) needs HTML and cannot understand XHTML
>

Cheers,

Tom P




From noreply@sourceforge.net  Mon Apr 28 11:08:45 2003
From: noreply@sourceforge.net (SourceForge.net)
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 03:08:45 -0700
Subject: [XML-SIG] [ pyxml-Bugs-728810 ] Forgotten print statement
Message-ID: <E19A5Yz-0003QL-00@sc8-sf-web4.sourceforge.net>

Bugs item #728810, was opened at 2003-04-28 12:08
Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter
You can respond by visiting: 
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=106473&aid=728810&group_id=6473

Category: None
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Andy-Kim Möller (malamute)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Forgotten print statement

Initial Comment:
Nothing big, but in the wddx.py file is a forgotten
print statement. It seems like a rest of debugging the
script. If you have now special characters the library
prints everytime something to stdout.

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