william tanksley wrote: > I want to parse my iTunes Library xml. All was well, until I unplugged > and left for the train (where I get most of my personal projects > done). All of a sudden, I discovered that apparently the presence of a > DOCTYPE in the iTunes XML makes xml.dom.minidom insist on accessing > the Internet... So suddenly I was unable to do any work. > > I don't want to modify the iTunes XML; iTunes rewrites it too often. > How can I prevent xml.dom.minidom from dying when it can't access the > Internet? > > Is there a simpler way to read the iTunes XML? (It's merely a plist, > so the format is much simpler than general XML.)
Normally, this should be solved using an entity-handler that prevents the remote fetching. I presume the underlying implementation of a SAX-parser does use one, but you can't override that (at least I didn't find anything in the docs) The most pragmatic solution would be to rip the doctype out using simple string methods and/or regexes. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
