[XML-SIG] python xml parser

[Chris Herborth]

J. Xu wrote:

> How can I pass stdout of processes, or output stream of network channels 
> (like ssh) to a python xml parser (either through DOM or SAX) so that 
> xml can be used as the communication tool among different components of 
> the software? I think the standard python xml reader expects a file-like 
>  object or string as the input, but not sure if it can take a stream. 
> Any suggestions are highly appreciated.

If you're not passing large amounts of data around, httplib looks pretty 
easy to hook up:

# Pretty much straight from the Library Reference:

import httplib
conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("www.python.org")
conn.request("GET", "/index.html")
r1 = conn.getresponse()
data1 = r1.read()

# pass data1 to an XML processor's parseString() or similar method
# exercise for the reader ;-)

conn.close()

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