Roman Suzi wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Nov 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Is there a better way? > > What about parsing the input into XML first? Is there any point in including > unescaped code into XML document unless it is XML itself?
Indeed. My approach would be to parse the user's input using the parseString function, to get the "root element" of this newly parsed document, and then to import that element into the existing document using importNode. The imported document information could then be inserted into the existing document at a suitable place. For example: user_doc = xml.dom.minidom.parseString(user_input) # NOTE: Check for element or use XPath here... user_doc_root = user_doc.childNodes[0] imported_root = existing_doc.importNode(user_doc_root, 1) existing_doc_location.appendChild(imported_root) Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list