Re: [xml] Getting Node content with markup

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 01:52:46PM -0400, Ben Gamari wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am implementing a python library to modify an XML-based documentation 
> format which must be able to handle XML such as this:
>      <Function name="foo">
>        <Description>The function <FuncName>foo</FuncName> modifies the 
> variable <VarName>bar</VarName> etc.</Description>
>      </Function>
> Instead of creating classes for the <FuncName> and <VarName> elements I 
> would like to pass the inner xml of the <Description> element directly 
> to the user. I'm using the tree API and haven't found a suitable 
> function. However, when I was looking at the XMLReader API I found the 
> xmlTextReaderReadInnerXml and xmlTextReaderReadOuterXml functions but 
> unfortunately they are unimplemented. If I have to I could write code 
> to reconstruct the tags from the tree but I would much rather not have 
> to undo the work of the parser. Does anyone know of a way to get the 
> inner xml of an element with the tree api or know if and when this will 
> be implemented. I might be able to donate an implementation if you are 
> interested in it.

  have you tried node.serialize() ? see python/tests/serialize.py for
a full set of examples. If operated at the reader level you will have
to get it to Expand() first ...

Daniel

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