Hi,
I'm working on creating an xml structure like the following, as
effiecienty and elegantly as possible using minidom preferably:
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(left out)
The following code accomplishes that, but being a newb to xml..I'm not
sure if this can be done a better (I'd like to stick with dom due to
the nature of this app):
(left textnode parts like mayor, cityname out to keep code concise for
now)
#from xml.dom.minidom import parseString
##create a new document
#scoreXML= parseString(u''.encode('UTF-8'))
#art = scoreXML.documentElement
#
##create a total population, cities and some city elements
#population = scoreXML.createElementNS(None,u'population')
#cities = scoreXML.createElementNS(None,u'cities')
#city1 = scoreXML.createElementNS(None,u'city1')
#city2 = scoreXML.createElementNS(None,u'city2')
#city3 = scoreXML.createElementNS(None,u'city3 and so on')
#
##add it under the region element
#art.appendChild(population)
#art.appendChild(cities)
#
## create a total element with a population number inside
## and do this for all RCI numbers
#population.appendChild(scoreXML.createElementNS(None,u'total'))
#total = scoreXML.createTextNode(u'0')
#population.firstChild.appendChild(total)
##will get RCI with seperate function
#RCI = [scoreXML.createTextNode(u'0'),
# scoreXML.createTextNode(u'0'),
# scoreXML.createTextNode(u'0')] #[r,c,i]
#for populationElement in [u'R',u'C',u'I']:
#
population.appendChild(scoreXML.createElementNS(None,populationElement))
#population.lastChild.appendChild(RCI[0])
#RCI.pop(0)
#
##add the elements underneath city
#allcities = [city1,city2,city3]
#for city in allcities:
# cities.appendChild(city)
#
# for cityattribute in [u'cityname',u'mayor',u'morelater']:
# city.appendChild(scoreXML.createElementNS(None,cityattribute))
#
# citypopulation = scoreXML.createElementNS(None,u'citypopulation')
# city.appendChild(citypopulation)
# #will get RCI with seperate function
# RCI = [scoreXML.createTextNode(u'0'),
#scoreXML.createTextNode(u'0'),
#scoreXML.createTextNode(u'0')] #[r,c,i]
#
# for populationElement in [u'R',u'C',u'I']:
#>>citypopulation.appendChild(scoreXML.createElementNS(None,populationElement))
# citypopulation.lastChild.appendChild(RCI[0])
# RCI.pop(0)
##write the result
#print scoreXML.toprettyxml()
Any ideas?
-thanks in advance
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