Steve Waterbury wrote:
> Off-topic alert! Take it to an XML list, please!
Just to clarify: the discussion of Python tools for XML is great,
and I'm learning from it! My plea was to try to avoid the issue of
whether XML in general is a Good Thing, which tends to be theological.
Sorry if
Mike Orr wrote:
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> On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 05:58:22PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > It's certainly hard to define what convenience is where XML processing is
> > concerned. Personally, I'm more and more against converting XML documents to
> > other representations (or accessing them as tho
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> I'll certainly look into Python XPath packages, of which there must surely be
> one included in the PyXML suite. I'm not 100% convinced of the robustness of
> PyXML in these "edge cases", however - there was a fair amount of discussion
> recently about what was needed
Mike Orr wrote:
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> On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 12:14:15PM -0400, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> > > On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 12:29:23PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > > I just wanted nicer ways of accessing XML information through the
> > > > DOM API but without all the usual messing about handling
> >
Ian Sparks wrote:
>
> >>
> XML is wonderful in theory, ...
> <<
>
> I understand the sentiment but the truth is that DOM, XSLT, XPath, SAX : all
> these "ridiculously complicated" new languages represent real and worthwhile
> additions to the programmers toolbox ...
Off-topic alert! Take it
f XML-aware Python applications by a significant
amount.
<<
Probably true but I think standardization on these other technologies will
take us further in the long-run.
- Ian Sparks.
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On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 05:58:22PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It's certainly hard to define what convenience is where XML processing is
> concerned. Personally, I'm more and more against converting XML documents to
> other representations (or accessing them as those representations),
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On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 14:21:33 -0400 Ian Sparks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 14:21:33 -0400 Ian Sparks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>It's certainly hard to define what convenience is where XML processing is
>concerned.<<
>
>XPath is as useful to XML documents as SQL is to RDBMS's. Sure, you can use
>cursors to do everything you'd want to in an RDBM's b
robably isn't valid and I don't know the
Python syntax for XPath use but you get the idea.
- Ian Sparks.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Orr) wrote:
>
>On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 12:14:15PM -0400, Jeff Johnson wrote:
>>
>> I haven't checked out pyrxp yet but have you all tried XPath? It's
>> really easy to access XML info with it.
>
>No, what's xpath? ... Hmm, Parnassus lists three xpath packages (xml_index
> No, what's xpath? ... Hmm, Parnassus lists three xpath packages
> (xml_indexer,
> a 4Suite tool, and PyXPath). Which do you recommend?
> http://www.vex.net/parnassus/apyllo.py?so=d&find=xpath
XPath defines a W3C standard syntax for pulling information out of an
XML document. We use 4Suite,
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 12:14:15PM -0400, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 12:29:23PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > I just wanted nicer ways of accessing XML information through the
> > > DOM API but without all the usual messing about handling
> XML
> > data
> > > which isn
> On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 12:29:23PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I just wanted nicer ways of accessing XML information
> > through the DOM API but without all the usual messing about handling
XML
> data
> > which isn't interesting - spurious text sections and so on. One
problem
> with
> >
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 12:29:23PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I just wanted nicer ways of accessing XML information
> through the DOM API but without all the usual messing about handling XML data
> which isn't interesting - spurious text sections and so on. One problem with
> the DOM API
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 13:59:34 +0200 Bill Eldridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>I found it at:
>
>http://thor.prohosting.com/%7Epboddie/
This might be quite dated, but still interesting to look at. I was in the
process of making lots of changes before getting distracted.
>and
>
>http://www.imape
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Orr) wrote:
>
>>In any case, there's also XMLForms lurking around somewhere.
>
>
> I don't think it's actually available for download from anywhere, although
> there was a mirror from which some versions were available. The domains through
>
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