Re: [xml] Building a DOM tree in python using libxml2

["William M. Brack" <wbrack mmm com hk>]

John Fleck said:
> On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 16:19, Colin Fox wrote:
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> > Hi, all.
> >
> > I posted before about trying to manually build a tree and getting
> > a
> > segfault.
> >
> > Maybe I've overlooked something, but I've checked all the
> > documentation
> > I can find, and can't see any examples of doing this in python.
> >
> > Can a kind soul out there provide me with a short example on how
> > to
> > construct a small tree in python? A root with a single text node
> > would
> > be great.
> >
> > Thanks,
>
> Here's one:
>
> #!/usr/bin/python -u
> import libxml2
>
> doc = libxml2.newDoc("1.0")
> root = doc.newChild(None, "root", "some content")
>
> doc.saveFormatFile(("file.xml"),1)
> doc.freeDoc()
>
> Cheers,
> John

Colin - Sorry not to have replied to your original post, but I had
the same problem as you with not having any examples of a simple
Python program that worked :-).  John's example solves that problem.
 I'll try to check into why your previous attempt produced a
segfault - we can argue over whether or not the code is "correct",
but I think we will agree it shouldn't crash in that manner.

In fact, I simplified your original post just a bit:-

import libxml2
d = libxml2.xmlDoc('1.0')
print d

and got a segfault at that point :-\.  Anyway, I'll try to get it
fixed.

Bill