I've been trying to figure out how to do something that seems relatively simple, but it's just not coming together for me. I'm hoping someone will deign to give me a little insight here.
The problem: We have XML documents that use a custom table format that was designed primarily for typesetting documents. It's a column-first oriented scheme, and now we need a way to convert these table elements to HTML style row-first tables. I would like to be able to do something like this: doc = xml.dom.minidom.parse(input) for table in doc.getElementsByTagName('COLTABLE'): newtable = coltable_to_rowtable(table) ## this is what I can't figure out doc.replace(table, newtable) output.write(doc.toxml('utf-8')) I'm pretty sure I'm missing something obvious, but haven't been able to find any examples. Someone please whack me with a cluestick, Nick -- #include<stdio.h> /* sigmask (sig.c) 20041028 PUBLIC DOMAIN */ int main(c,v)char *v;{return !c?putchar(* /* cc -o sig sig.c */ v-1)&&main(0,v+1):main(0,"Ojdl!Wbshjti!=ojdlAwbshjti/psh?\v\1");} -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list