On Wednesday 19 November 2008 00:33:57 José Matos wrote:
> Hi,
> instead of a long (and boring) roadmap that no one follows I would like
> to
> suggest small threads that deal with single issues.
>
> In this case for lyx2lyx I suggest to use lxml:
> http://codespeak.net/lxml/
>
> I am aware that this is an external library but it can be easily
> installed
> and it works for all versions of python that we support.
>
> Code that illustrates the simplicity of the library will follow
> tomorrow.
The following code extracts the file format used in the document ug.lyx
from lxml.etree import parse
tree = parse('ug.lyx')
document = tree.getroot()
document.attrib['format']
for part in document:
print part.tag
Results in:
346
header
body
> Note that among other advantages the conversion between xml will become
> faster than what happens now.
>
> Any problem with this choice?
--
José Abílio
