Re: [xml] Python XML doc displayer

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 03:03:47PM -0500, David Turvene wrote:
> I'm learning libxml2 because it seems to be robust and actively
> maintained.  Also, I like the rich python support.   In one of my
> learning exercises, I emulate xmlDebugDumpDocument by recursively
> descending the document tree.  The program is pasted below.  I ran it
> against several libxml2-2.6.16/doc/*.xml files for testing. My
> comments/questions:
>
> 1) How does one get the document header properties (e.g. 'version',
> 'standalone', the DTD refentry) via python?

  since there is no function accessor for them at the C level
I doubt there is any bindings to access them.

> 2) I had a problem testing if a node has a name space.  The libxml2.py
> code throws an exception when xmlNode::ns() is called and I didn't see a
> test ('hasNs'?) for namespace presence.

  same thing, it's usually available directly from C by accessing
the structure. Please bugzilla it should not crash anyway

> 3) Is there a better way to walk the node tree?

  glancing at the code, this looks fine. I think there is a python
iterator available, but I don't remember the details.

Daniel

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