[XML-SIG] make_parser

[Uche Ogbuji]

On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 04:59, Ajay wrote:
> hi!
> 
> in my code, i am giving make_parser the name of the parser i'd like to use
> the code is below
> 
> parser = make_parser(['xmlproc'])
> parser.setFeature(feature_namespaces, 0)
> dh = FindIssue()
> 
> # Tell the parser to use our handler
> parser.setContentHandler(dh)
> # Parse the input
> f = open('\um\proxy\policy-eg1.xml')
> str = f.read()
> f.close()
> print "file read"
> parser.parseString(str)
> 
> this throws an error saying ExpatParser instance has no attribute
> 'parseString'
> 
> what am i doing wrong? i thought i was using xmlproc

You thought wrongly, and it's easy to check:

>>> from xml.sax import make_parser
>>> print make_parser(['xmlproc'])
<xml.sax.expatreader.ExpatParser instance at 0x553e56ac>

clearly expat

>>> print make_parser(['xml.sax.drivers.drv_xmlproc'])
<xml.sax.drivers.drv_xmlproc.SAX_XPParser instance at 0x553e590c>

clearly xmlproc

make_parser falls back to its defaults if none of the drivers you list
can be imported.


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