Re: [xml] xmlParseDTD with input from memory, in Python

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 10:31:15AM -0400, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 September 2004 05:17 pm, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>  > in the python bindings, but xmlIOParseDTD is not part of the automatically
>  > generated binding, though most of the infrastructure seems in place.
>
> Thanks, Daniel!
>
> For the moment, let's assume those routines get exposed at some point (I don't 
> have time to figure that out today, though), and I'll use a temporary file as 
> a workaround.
>
> > From looking at the xmllint code, it looks like I'll also need 
> xmlNewValidCtxt() and xmlValidateDtd() to be exposed, but quickly looking at 
> libxml2:
>
> > > > import libxml2
> > > > [n for n in dir(libxml2) if n.lower().find("valid") != -1]
>
> I don't see anything that looks promising.  Are these exposed already, or 
> would those need to be added as well?

  Might need to be added. Or do a bit differently for the bindings.

> I tried pointing Epydoc at the libxml2 Python module, and while it generated a 
> pile of HTML, there's not a lot there for someone that's not already familiar 
> with the library.  The material on xmlsoft.org gives the same feeling.  Are 
> there any introductory materials for new users for the libxml2 and libxslt 
> libraries?

  http://xmlsoft.org/python.html
  python/tests/*.py

 Agreed it's far from complete.

Daniel

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