From noreply at sourceforge.net  Tue May  2 15:59:44 2006
From: noreply at sourceforge.net (SourceForge.net)
Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 06:59:44 -0700
Subject: [XML-SIG] [ pyxml-Bugs-1480403 ] xpath.Evaluate() fails on larger
	documents
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Bugs item #1480403, was opened at 2006-05-02 13:59
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Submitted By: Rene Ladan (rene0)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: xpath.Evaluate() fails on larger documents

Initial Comment:
I'm using the xpath.Evaluate() function in a Python
program but xpath.Evaluate() seems to have a bug.  When
using a small test document (10 lines), it get the
right result, but when using a larger document (about
185kB), it returns an empty list instead of the
expected result. In both cases I'm expecting a list
containing a single text node.

The path expression and the relative starting node of
the expression are the same in both cases.

I've attached the test document (test-eval.xml), the
larger document (vb.xml), and a test program
(test-eval.py) which also has the above behaviour as a
single archive xpath-evaluate.tar.gz

Versions:
python 2.4.3
py-xml 0.8.4


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From aconrad.tlv at magic.fr  Tue May  2 21:30:24 2006
From: aconrad.tlv at magic.fr (Alexandre CONRAD)
Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 21:30:24 +0200
Subject: [XML-SIG] no 'writexml' when building a domTree from ext.Sax2
In-Reply-To: <1091129642.4127.3.camel@borgia>
References: <41051B40.70604@magic.fr> <1091033737.19713.124.camel@borgia>	
	<4108BB82.2080502@magic.fr> <1091129642.4127.3.camel@borgia>
Message-ID: <4457B350.9010301@magic.fr>

(sending again to the list)

Uche Ogbuji wrote:
> There are so many ways to do all this that I'm not sure where to start. 
> What are your priorities?  Speed?  Low memory footprint?  Simplicity of
> code? Avoiding installing 3rd-party tools?...
>>>Warning: 4DOM is very slow.  It's claim to fame used to be compliance,
>>>but now it has been superseded in that regard by Andrew Clover's pxdom.
>>>
>>>I'm pretty sure I wouldn't recommend 4DOM to anyone for anything right
>>>now.  
>>
>>Well, I'm just reading the documentation. What would you recommand ?
> 
> 
> I need much more info.  minidom?  cDomlette?  pxdom?  A Python "data binding"?
> An output library?  Many things would work.

Hello list,

I'm back on an old topic of mine. I'm thinking of re-writing the XML
application that I have been running fine for a while now. Plus, I'm now
more confortable with XML and mostly Python in general compared to my
skills back in august 2004.

But today, I'm bumping into a problem I remembered that Uche Ogbuji
pointed to me. "4DOM is very slow". :)

So until now, everything worked fine for me with XML files containing
about 50 nodes or so. But now I'm getting into XML files from 200 to 800
nodes (and more). And I do feel that 4DOM is slow. To open an XML file,
I use:

   from xml.dom.ext.reader import Sax2

   reader = Sax2.Reader()
   doc = reader.fromStream("playlist.xml")
   xml.dom.ext.StripXml(doc)

   return doc

So I'd like some advices of what could be recommanded as a replacement
of 4DOM. (building and parsing XML files) You were talking about
minidom, cDomlette, xpdom, etc...

I would prefer using python's standard module library rather than
installing 3rd party tools. Speed (faster than 4DOM would be a good
start) is one of my priorities. I'm also using XPath for parsing (not
always though).

Regards,
-- 
Alexandre CONRAD - TLV
Research & Development
tel : +33 1 30 80 55 05
fax : +33 1 30 80 55 06
6, rue de la plaine
78860 - SAINT NOM LA BRETECHE
FRANCE




From aconrad.tlv at magic.fr  Wed May  3 11:02:10 2006
From: aconrad.tlv at magic.fr (Alexandre CONRAD)
Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 11:02:10 +0200
Subject: [XML-SIG] no 'writexml' when building a domTree from ext.Sax2
In-Reply-To: <1091129642.4127.3.camel@borgia>
References: <41051B40.70604@magic.fr> <1091033737.19713.124.camel@borgia>	
	<4108BB82.2080502@magic.fr> <1091129642.4127.3.camel@borgia>
Message-ID: <44587192.5090601@magic.fr>

(sending again to the list)

Uche Ogbuji wrote:
> There are so many ways to do all this that I'm not sure where to start. 
> What are your priorities?  Speed?  Low memory footprint?  Simplicity of
> code? Avoiding installing 3rd-party tools?...
>>>Warning: 4DOM is very slow.  It's claim to fame used to be compliance,
>>>but now it has been superseded in that regard by Andrew Clover's pxdom.
>>>
>>>I'm pretty sure I wouldn't recommend 4DOM to anyone for anything right
>>>now.  
>>
>>Well, I'm just reading the documentation. What would you recommand ?
> 
> 
> I need much more info.  minidom?  cDomlette?  pxdom?  A Python "data binding"?
> An output library?  Many things would work.

Hello list,

I'm back on an old topic of mine. I'm thinking of re-writing the XML
application that I have been running fine for a while now. Plus, I'm now
more confortable with XML and mostly Python in general compared to my
skills back in august 2004.

But today, I'm bumping into a problem I remembered that Uche Ogbuji
pointed to me. "4DOM is very slow". :)

So until now, everything worked fine for me with XML files containing
about 50 nodes or so. But now I'm getting into XML files from 200 to 800
nodes (and more). And I do feel that 4DOM is slow. To open an XML file,
I use:

   from xml.dom.ext.reader import Sax2

   reader = Sax2.Reader()
   doc = reader.fromStream("playlist.xml")
   xml.dom.ext.StripXml(doc)

   return doc

So I'd like some advices of what could be recommanded as a replacement
of 4DOM. (building and parsing XML files) You were talking about
minidom, cDomlette, xpdom, etc...

I would prefer using python's standard module library rather than
installing 3rd party tools. Speed (faster than 4DOM would be a good
start) is one of my priorities. I'm also using XPath for parsing (not
always though).

Regards,
-- 
Alexandre CONRAD - TLV
Research & Development
tel : +33 1 30 80 55 05
fax : +33 1 30 80 55 06
6, rue de la plaine
78860 - SAINT NOM LA BRETECHE
FRANCE






From fredrik at pythonware.com  Wed May  3 14:19:44 2006
From: fredrik at pythonware.com (Fredrik Lundh)
Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 14:19:44 +0200
Subject: [XML-SIG] no 'writexml' when building a domTree from ext.Sax2
References: <41051B40.70604@magic.fr>
	<1091033737.19713.124.camel@borgia>	<4108BB82.2080502@magic.fr>
	<1091129642.4127.3.camel@borgia> <44587192.5090601@magic.fr>
Message-ID: <e3a750$a19$1@sea.gmane.org>

Alexandre CONRAD wrote:
> I would prefer using python's standard module library rather than
> installing 3rd party tools. Speed (faster than 4DOM would be a good
> start) is one of my priorities. I'm also using XPath for parsing (not
> always though).

speed and no 3rd party tools aren't exactly compatible requirements.  however,
if it's okay for you to ship one or two python modules with your application, you
could use the ElementTree and ElementPath modules from the ElementTree kit,
together with Python's pyexpat.

    http://effbot.org/zone/elementtree.htm

by itself, ElementTree is a bit faster than most other DOM implementations.  if
you add the cElementTree module (a standard component on many modern
Linux systems), you'll end up with something that can read XML files faster
than Python can read text files:

    http://effbot.org/zone/celementtree.htm#benchmarks

ET is a bit limited in the XPath department, though.  if you want reasonable
speed and full XPath support (and a *lot* more), see http://codespeak.net/lxml/

</F> 




From aconrad.tlv at magic.fr  Wed May  3 16:19:06 2006
From: aconrad.tlv at magic.fr (Alexandre CONRAD)
Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 16:19:06 +0200
Subject: [XML-SIG] no 'writexml' when building a domTree from ext.Sax2
In-Reply-To: <e3a750$a19$1@sea.gmane.org>
References: <41051B40.70604@magic.fr>	<1091033737.19713.124.camel@borgia>	<4108BB82.2080502@magic.fr>	<1091129642.4127.3.camel@borgia>
	<44587192.5090601@magic.fr> <e3a750$a19$1@sea.gmane.org>
Message-ID: <4458BBDA.9020301@magic.fr>

> ET is a bit limited in the XPath department, though.  if you want reasonable
> speed and full XPath support (and a *lot* more), see http://codespeak.net/lxml/

Ok, I'll have a look at the documentation. I might stick up to this. 
This looks complete and they seem to work hard on keeping it pythonic.

If I understand well, to get the documentation of lxlm, I'll have to 
read the ET documentation as it seems to be the same API.

I've been googling discussions about ET and lxml and people seems to be 
pretty happy about it.

Thanks for you help.

Regards,
-- 
Alexandre CONRAD - TLV
Research & Development
tel : +33 1 30 80 55 05
fax : +33 1 30 80 55 06
6, rue de la plaine
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From ht at inf.ed.ac.uk  Wed May 10 11:04:27 2006
From: ht at inf.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson)
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 10:04:27 +0100
Subject: [XML-SIG] SAX2 and PyXML -- any actual complete implementations?
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I've spent the last day exploring the state of 0.8.4 and SAX2, and as
far as I can see the following is the case:

 * Only expat of the distributed SAX2 parsers supports start/endPrefixMapping
 * Only expat of the distributed SAX2 parsers supports setDocumentLocator

Given that I need a validating parser, that's a bit unfortunate.

PyXML hasn't moved forward for some time -- is the energy for Python
and XML going somewhere else, or does no-one care enough about
validation. . .?

Not a criticism, a genuine request for information.  I am prepared to
look at either

 1) Building a validator on top of expat;
 2) Adding support for start/endPrefixMapping and (easy)
    setDocumentLocator to SAX2/xmlproc.

if there's really nothing else out there.

Cheers,

ht
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From ht at inf.ed.ac.uk  Wed May 10 12:23:14 2006
From: ht at inf.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson)
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 11:23:14 +0100
Subject: [XML-SIG] prepare_input_source in saxutils
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Suspect this is an FAQ, but I don't understand what to do about it.

The saxutils in the 0.8.4 distribution shadows the one in the Python
2.4 distribution proper, but it (the 0.8.4) version has at least one
bug that's fixed in the official distro.

What's the approved way to unshadow the (newer, corrected) saxutils?

ht
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From ht at inf.ed.ac.uk  Thu May 11 17:43:22 2006
From: ht at inf.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson)
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 16:43:22 +0100
Subject: [XML-SIG] Pull access to SAX
Message-ID: <f5bmzdoworp.fsf@erasmus.inf.ed.ac.uk>

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I've built something which does this in a way I find useful, it's
available for anyone who wants such a thing:

  http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/PullFromSAX.py

ht
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From noreply at sourceforge.net  Thu May 18 18:04:03 2006
From: noreply at sourceforge.net (SourceForge.net)
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 09:04:03 -0700
Subject: [XML-SIG] [ pyxml-Patches-1491055 ] sgmlop broken on Python 2.5
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Patches item #1491055, was opened at 2006-05-18 18:04
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Priority: 5
Submitted By: Walter D?rwald (doerwalter)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: sgmlop broken on Python 2.5

Initial Comment:
extensions/sgmlop.c uses PyObject_NEW() for allocating
and PyMem_DEL() for freeing which is broken under
Python 2.5. This patch fixes this problem.

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From lars at larsshack.org  Sat May 20 03:09:36 2006
From: lars at larsshack.org (Lars Kellogg-Stedman)
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 21:09:36 -0400
Subject: [XML-SIG] Parsing malformed XHTML
Message-ID: <c27faacf0605191809s31a073b5rcb58bd117ea5a45b@mail.gmail.com>

Hello all,

There a document out there on the 'net that appears to be an XHTML document:

<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd xhtml 1.0 transitional//en"
  "http://www.w3.org/tr/xhtml1/dtd/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
  xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml">

Great, right?  But unfortunately it's malformed in a number of ways
(mismatched tags, tag case problems, unescaped '&' in URLs, etc).
Neither minidom.parseStream() nor
xml.dom.ext.reader.Sax2.Reader.fromStream() will parse it correctly:

  xml.sax._exceptions.SAXParseException: foo.html:2:0: syntax error

And even if one gets rid of the bogus doctype declaration, the rest of
the document just makes the parsers fall over:

  xml.sax._exceptions.SAXParseException: foo.html:14:53: not
well-formed (invalid token)

My next thought was to parse this with
xml.dom.ext.reader.HtmlLib...but HtmlLib doesn't like the namespace
declarations:

  xml.dom.NamespaceErr: Invalid or illegal namespace operation

I need to parse this document into a DOM, make some changes, and then
spit back out the modified file as (X?)HTML (ideally well-formed).  Am
I going to be able to do this with PyXML?  If not, I'd love to hear
your suggestions for the appropriate tools.

Thanks!

-- Lars

-- 
Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars at larsshack.org>

From brian at sweetapp.com  Sun May 21 10:23:59 2006
From: brian at sweetapp.com (Brian Quinlan)
Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 10:23:59 +0200
Subject: [XML-SIG] Parsing malformed XHTML
In-Reply-To: <c27faacf0605191809s31a073b5rcb58bd117ea5a45b@mail.gmail.com>
References: <c27faacf0605191809s31a073b5rcb58bd117ea5a45b@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4470239F.1090900@sweetapp.com>

Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote:

> I need to parse this document into a DOM, make some changes, and then
> spit back out the modified file as (X?)HTML (ideally well-formed).  Am
> I going to be able to do this with PyXML?  If not, I'd love to hear
> your suggestions for the appropriate tools.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -- Lars
> 

You might want to look into Beautiful Soup. Another approach is to pass 
the document through HTML Tidy and then process the output.

Cheers,
Brian

From ashearerw at shearersoftware.com  Tue May 23 22:38:39 2006
From: ashearerw at shearersoftware.com (Andrew Shearer)
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 16:38:39 -0400
Subject: [XML-SIG] Parsing malformed XHTML
Message-ID: <17c19be0605231338u1834b86n4aaf9635577ba0a@mail.gmail.com>

> Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote:
>
> > I need to parse this document into a DOM, make some changes, and then
> > spit back out the modified file as (X?)HTML (ideally well-formed).  Am
> > I going to be able to do this with PyXML?  If not, I'd love to hear
> > your suggestions for the appropriate tools.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > -- Lars
> You might want to look into Beautiful Soup. Another approach is to pass
> the document through HTML Tidy and then process the output.
>
> Cheers,
> Brian

Another possibility is HTMLFilter. It parses HTML 4 or
backward-compatible XHTML in a way that's more SAX-like than DOM-like,
though you could still use it to build a DOM.  It's well suited for
modifying documents in place, because tags you don't need to modify
can pass straight through without risk of indigestion.

http://www.shearersoftware.com/software/developers/htmlfilter/

-- Andrew

From b.n.lawrence at rl.ac.uk  Fri May 26 22:22:41 2006
From: b.n.lawrence at rl.ac.uk (Bryan Lawrence)
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 21:22:41 +0100
Subject: [XML-SIG] unicode problems in elementtree
Message-ID: <200605262122.41891.b.n.lawrence@rl.ac.uk>

Hi Folks

elementtree is barfing (well to be correct, expat is barfing) with some 
unicode strings I'm passing through to it ... 

eg:
self = <ElementTree.XMLTreeBuilder instance>, self._parser = 
<pyexpat.xmlparser object>, self._parser.Parse = <built-in method Parse of 
pyexpat.xmlparser object>, data = 
u'<DIF><Entry_ID>badc.nerc.ac.uk:DIF:NM_HiGEM_yaao...on_Date>2005-02-03</Last_DIF_Revision_Date></DIF>'
  ExpatError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 1, column 11389 
      args = ('not well-formed (invalid token): line 1, column 11389',) 
      code = 4 
      lineno = 1 
      offset = 11389

For the record, we find [3 <= tau ]in that block ... we also have problem with 
degree symbols and whatever ..

I suspect the problem is that I'm not actually passing an xml document (with a 
character encoding definition) to ET ... I'm just passing some stuff which is 
an xml fragment (from a web service interface to a database).

Does elementtree and/or expat need to know the encoding to get this right? 
(which may be a problem coz this could be from anyone's document in any 
encoding ...)

(Sorry, I'm a bit unicode illiterate, and while I appreciate it's something I 
should know, there is other stuff filling my mind at the moment ...)

Bryan

From dstanek at dstanek.com  Sat May 27 00:34:29 2006
From: dstanek at dstanek.com (David Stanek)
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 22:34:29 +0000
Subject: [XML-SIG] unicode problems in elementtree
In-Reply-To: <200605262122.41891.b.n.lawrence@rl.ac.uk>
References: <200605262122.41891.b.n.lawrence@rl.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <20060526223429.GE9005@darkbox.hsd1.oh.comcast.net>

On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 09:22:41PM +0100, Bryan Lawrence wrote:
> 
> Does elementtree and/or expat need to know the encoding to get this right? 
> (which may be a problem coz this could be from anyone's document in any 
> encoding ...)
> 

I think you will have to tell elementtree what encoding your XML is
in. Otherwise how would it know? I am sure there is a better way,
but I have seen people try to guess encodings like:

  # untested and from my bad memory :-)
  encodings = ['utf-8', 'utf-16',i 'iso-8859-1',]
  for encoding in encodings:
      try:
          unicode(s, encoding)
      except UnicodeError:
          pass
      else:
          break

The encodings list would be a list of common encodings that you may
expect. Again there must be a better way to do this... I would
suggest that you try to set a standard for encodings.

David Stanek

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From jzgoda at o2.pl  Sat May 27 12:26:32 2006
From: jzgoda at o2.pl (Jarek Zgoda)
Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 12:26:32 +0200
Subject: [XML-SIG] unicode problems in elementtree
In-Reply-To: <200605262122.41891.b.n.lawrence@rl.ac.uk>
References: <200605262122.41891.b.n.lawrence@rl.ac.uk>
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Bryan Lawrence napisa?(a):

> I suspect the problem is that I'm not actually passing an xml document (with a 
> character encoding definition) to ET ... I'm just passing some stuff which is 
> an xml fragment (from a web service interface to a database).
> 
> Does elementtree and/or expat need to know the encoding to get this right? 
> (which may be a problem coz this could be from anyone's document in any 
> encoding ...)

As per XML spec, if no encoding is declared, UTF-8 is assumed (AFAIK
expat follows this). Check if your data is valid UTF-8. Expat accepts
only UTF-8, UTF-16, iso-8859-1 and ascii data, but without encoding
declaration treats everything as UTF-8.

-- 
Jarek Zgoda
http://jpa.berlios.de/


From md at xlhost.de  Sat May 27 13:58:56 2006
From: md at xlhost.de (Matthias Dorfner)
Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 13:58:56 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [XML-SIG] Pyxml question
Message-ID: <60775.195.37.209.59.1148731136.squirrel@server22.xlhost.de>

Hello,

first of all thanks a lot for your great pyxml descriptions on your
homepage, it helps me a lot!
Nevertheless I've still some problems creating my xml file with the
correct double quoted string in the namespace, here one example:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<request xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'
xmlns:noNameSpaceSchemaLocation='Handle.xsd'>

I need exactly this output but not single quoted(' -> "). Here's the code
I use to create this one:

dom = xml.dom.minidom.getDOMImplementation()
doc = dom.createDocument(None, "request", None)

#Get the document element
msg_elem = doc.documentElement

#Create an xmlns attributes on the root element
msg_elem.setAttributeNS(XMLNS_NAMESPACE, "xmlns:xsi",
"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance")
msg_elem.setAttributeNS(XMLNS_NAMESPACE, "xsi:noNameSpaceSchemaLocation",
"Handle.xsd")

Maybe you know what I can do, I tried a lot but nothing worked.

Thanks for your time,
Greetings

Matthias D.


www.xlhost.de

From md at xlhost.de  Sat May 27 14:45:14 2006
From: md at xlhost.de (Matthias Dorfner)
Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 14:45:14 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [XML-SIG] Pyxml: DOM questions, problems with namespaces
Message-ID: <62225.195.37.209.59.1148733914.squirrel@server22.xlhost.de>

Hello together,

I'm quite new to pyxml, so please forgive me some maybe "stupid"
questions. I've two question:

1. some problems creating my xml file with the
correct double quoted string in the namespace, here one example:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<request xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'
xmlns:noNameSpaceSchemaLocation='Handle.xsd'>

I need exactly this output but not single quoted(' -> "). Here's the code
I use to create this one:

dom = xml.dom.minidom.getDOMImplementation()
doc = dom.createDocument(None, "request", None)

#Get the document element
msg_elem = doc.documentElement

#Create an xmlns attributes on the root element
msg_elem.setAttributeNS(EMPTY_NAMESPACE, "xmlns:xsi",
"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance")
msg_elem.setAttributeNS(EMPTY_NAMESPACE, "xsi:noNameSpaceSchemaLocation",
"Handle.xsd")

2. I want so post the above created xml structure to a webserver, but I
need to convert this first to a string, how can I do this? PrettyPrint
allows only writing this DOM structure to a file. Or is it possible to
correctly read out this xml file?

Maybe you know what I can do, I tried a lot but nothing worked.

Thanks for your time,
Greetings

Babsi

From dieter at handshake.de  Sat May 27 20:06:09 2006
From: dieter at handshake.de (Dieter Maurer)
Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 20:06:09 +0200
Subject: [XML-SIG] unicode problems in elementtree
In-Reply-To: <200605262122.41891.b.n.lawrence@rl.ac.uk>
References: <200605262122.41891.b.n.lawrence@rl.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <17528.38161.106992.186300@gargle.gargle.HOWL>

Bryan Lawrence wrote at 2006-5-26 21:22 +0100:
>elementtree is barfing (well to be correct, expat is barfing) with some 
>unicode strings I'm passing through to it ... 
>
>eg:
>self = <ElementTree.XMLTreeBuilder instance>, self._parser = 
><pyexpat.xmlparser object>, self._parser.Parse = <built-in method Parse of 
>pyexpat.xmlparser object>, data = 
>u'<DIF><Entry_ID>badc.nerc.ac.uk:DIF:NM_HiGEM_yaao...on_Date>2005-02-03</Last_DIF_Revision_Date></DIF>'
>  ExpatError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 1, column 11389 
>      args = ('not well-formed (invalid token): line 1, column 11389',) 
>      code = 4 
>      lineno = 1 
>      offset = 11389
>
>For the record, we find [3 <= tau ]in that block ...

I expect this is not a unicode but an XML problem: "<=" should in fact
be spelled "&lt;=" (as "<" needs to be quoted in XML).

>we also have problem with 
>degree symbols and whatever ..

You get which error? How does your source look like?

-- 
Dieter

From stylusstudio at gmail.com  Tue May 30 19:11:33 2006
From: stylusstudio at gmail.com (Stylus Studio)
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 13:11:33 -0400
Subject: [XML-SIG] [ANN] Job Posting - Web Application Engineer (Python +
	XML) in Boston
Message-ID: <57783b190605301011k2a7f1e28re15d34e865695b5c@mail.gmail.com>

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From Chuck_Lemons at Dell.com  Tue May 30 19:24:10 2006
From: Chuck_Lemons at Dell.com (Chuck_Lemons at Dell.com)
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 12:24:10 -0500
Subject: [XML-SIG] 64 bit version of PyXML
Message-ID: <A0326B33CD09654882339282C88DC3F701148E46@ausx3mps315.aus.amer.dell.com>

I am porting a Python application that uses PyXML to a 64 bit
architecture and getting the following error:

	from xml.utils import boolean
	ImportError: DLL load failed with error code 193

This particular error is with boolean.pyd.  I found two other pyd files,
pyexpat.py and sglmop.pyd.  I don't think I will need sglmop.pyd, but I
will probably need pyexpat.pyd.  Is there a 64 bit version of PyXML
available?  I am running my Python applications on 64 bit WinPE/VistaPE.
The 64 bit versions of PE do not include the WOW layer that allows 32
bit applications to run on 64 bit applications.  Therefore, all
executables/DLLs need to be compiled natively for 64 bit.

Chuck Lemons


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From martin at v.loewis.de  Wed May 31 00:12:06 2006
From: martin at v.loewis.de (martin at v.loewis.de)
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 00:12:06 +0200
Subject: [XML-SIG] 64 bit version of PyXML
In-Reply-To: <A0326B33CD09654882339282C88DC3F701148E46@ausx3mps315.aus.amer.dell.com>
References: <A0326B33CD09654882339282C88DC3F701148E46@ausx3mps315.aus.amer.dell.com>
Message-ID: <1149027126.447cc3362481a@www.domainfactory-webmail.de>

Zitat von Chuck_Lemons at Dell.com:

> I am porting a Python application that uses PyXML to a 64 bit
> architecture and getting the following error:
>
> 	from xml.utils import boolean
> 	ImportError: DLL load failed with error code 193

Why 64-bit architecture are you talking about (processor,
operating system, Python distribution)? (ok, later you
say it's VistaPE. Still not sure whether that is Itanium
or AMD64, and what Python version)

> This particular error is with boolean.pyd.  I found two other pyd files,
> pyexpat.py and sglmop.pyd.  I don't think I will need sglmop.pyd, but I
> will probably need pyexpat.pyd.  Is there a 64 bit version of PyXML
> available?

No - you will need to build it yourself. There isn't an official
Python binary release for Win64 on AMD64, either (atleast not
from python.org).

Regards,
Martin





From Chuck_Lemons at Dell.com  Wed May 31 16:34:28 2006
From: Chuck_Lemons at Dell.com (Chuck_Lemons at Dell.com)
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 09:34:28 -0500
Subject: [XML-SIG] 64 bit version of PyXML
In-Reply-To: <1149027126.447cc3362481a@www.domainfactory-webmail.de>
Message-ID: <A0326B33CD09654882339282C88DC3F701148F18@ausx3mps315.aus.amer.dell.com>

Thanks for the response Martin.  

The 64-bit architecture is AMD64.  I am using Python 2.4.3.11 from
ActiveState.  This version does provide 64-bit support for AMD64.  

Ok, it sounds like I need to build it myself.  What CVS modules will I
need to get?  

Chuck 

-----Original Message-----
From: martin at v.loewis.de [mailto:martin at v.loewis.de] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 5:12 PM
To: Lemons, Chuck
Cc: xml-sig at python.org
Subject: Re: [XML-SIG] 64 bit version of PyXML

Zitat von Chuck_Lemons at Dell.com:

> I am porting a Python application that uses PyXML to a 64 bit 
> architecture and getting the following error:
>
> 	from xml.utils import boolean
> 	ImportError: DLL load failed with error code 193

Why 64-bit architecture are you talking about (processor, operating
system, Python distribution)? (ok, later you say it's VistaPE. Still not
sure whether that is Itanium or AMD64, and what Python version)

> This particular error is with boolean.pyd.  I found two other pyd 
> files, pyexpat.py and sglmop.pyd.  I don't think I will need 
> sglmop.pyd, but I will probably need pyexpat.pyd.  Is there a 64 bit 
> version of PyXML available?

No - you will need to build it yourself. There isn't an official Python
binary release for Win64 on AMD64, either (atleast not from python.org).

Regards,
Martin



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From martin at v.loewis.de  Wed May 31 22:42:39 2006
From: martin at v.loewis.de (martin at v.loewis.de)
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 22:42:39 +0200
Subject: [XML-SIG] 64 bit version of PyXML
In-Reply-To: <A0326B33CD09654882339282C88DC3F701148F18@ausx3mps315.aus.amer.dell.com>
References: <A0326B33CD09654882339282C88DC3F701148F18@ausx3mps315.aus.amer.dell.com>
Message-ID: <1149108159.447dffbf140b3@www.domainfactory-webmail.de>

Zitat von Chuck_Lemons at Dell.com:

> Ok, it sounds like I need to build it myself.  What CVS modules will I
> need to get?

None; you need the source release (which you find next to where you
find the binary release). They you do "python setup.py install".

For that to work, you need the same tool chain that ActiveState
was using to produce the Win64 binaries in the first place.

Regards,
Martin