[Tutor] xml parsing

[Isaac Hall]

hi Alan,

On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 alan.gauld@bt.com wrote:

 
> (ie. where there is no separate matching </mmm> tag.)
> It might work I just haven't tried it or looked closely enough 
> to be sure.
> 

Yes, I know this does not handle all types of XML tags, but for the job 
that I do, this handles all that I need.  I recieve numerical data nested 
in XML, and all data have a name.  there are no attributes.  However this 
does not handle one thing that I need it to, and that is repeated tag 
names within the same directory.  My plan is to make a list for any 
repeated tags (for instance):
<block><item>1</item><item>2</item><item>3</item></block>
would give
{block:{item:[1,2,3]}}
but this is not in there yet.
Perhaps if I knew more about general XML then I could make this a more 
general thing, but I only know about the type of data I wish to read.


> > item=item=XMLstring[XMLstring.find('>')+1:XMLstring.find('</'+
> > key+'>')]
> 
> Is this a bug? or did you mean to have item=item=...
> 
yes, this was a copy and paste mistake....sorry


> > This doesn't seem to be the fastest thing ever, but it does the job.  
> > comments anyone?  could this possibly be 'useless python'? 
> 
> Definitely good for Useless I think.
> 
> Alan G.
> 

Thanks for comments
Ike
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