Re: [xml] python, libxml2, namespaces, and locator

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 04:05:13PM -0800, Morgen Sagen wrote:
> Under Python, I tried using libxml2 via the libxml2.SAXParseFile( ) 
> method, but it calls only my StartElement( ) callback rather than 
> StartElementNS( ).  Then I discovered the drv_libxml2.py driver and got 
> that to work like so...
> 
>    self.parser = xml.sax.make_parser(["drv_libxml2"])
>    self.parser.setFeature(xml.sax.handler.feature_namespaces, True)
>    self.parser.setFeature(xml.sax.handler.feature_namespace_prefixes, 
> True)
> 
> ...except that it doesn't currently support setDocumentLocator.
> 
> Is there a way to enable the namespaces and namespace_prefixes features 
> while using SAXParseFile( ) (or createPushParser( ), or ... )?

  Hum, that module was done by Stéphane Bidoul, I never actually looked
closely. The python SAX glue was done before I introduced SAX2 in libxml2
and wasn't updated. That part need to be improved...

Daniel

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