Would you mind writing a trac/wiki page on this?
Thanks!
Cheers,
Simon
Sean Jamieson wrote:
> Hmm, either nobody is interested, or everybody is to busy...
> I'm going to assume the latter, for the sake of my own ego :-)
>
> Just to recap, XMLModel allows you to expressively define an XML document,
> using native python classes, you can then access the elements of the XML
> through
> a tree of native python objects.
>
> In the future, I'm hoping to write a parser that can take a given model,
> and fill in the data from an XML document. I don't imagine this being
> too dificult, as a lot of the work is done by the model itself (it
> defines what data to look for).
>
> Here is an example of how XMLModel is used:
>
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> from xmlmodel.main import *
> from xmlmodel.xmlvalues import *
> from datetime import datetime
>
>
> class rss( XMLModel ):
> class XMLAttrs:
> version = '2.0'
>
> class channel( XMLNode ):
> title = XMLValue('test')
> description = XMLValue('something')
> link = XMLValue('http://here')
> lastBuildDate = XMLDateTime( format = "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S EST" )
> generator = XMLValue()
> docs = XMLValue()
>
> class item( XMLNodeList ):
> title = XMLValue()
> link = XMLValue()
> description = XMLValue()
> category = XMLList()
> pubDate = XMLDateTime( format = "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S EST" )
>
> feed = rss()
>
> feed.channel.title = 'Latest Headlines'
> feed.channel.description = 'Most Recent Headlines'
> feed.channel.generator = 'XMLModel 0.1a'
> feed.channel.lastBuildDate = datetime( 2006, 5, 10, 8, 24, 30 )
>
> # Normally we would loop this ;-)
> item = feed.channel.item.new()
> item.title = 'foo'
> item.link = 'http://foo'
> item.description = 'foo bar'
> item.category.append( 'foo' )
> item.category.append( 'bar' )
> item.pubDate = datetime( 2005, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 )
>
> item = feed.channel.item.new()
> item.title = 'bar'
> item.link = 'http://bar'
> item.description = 'bar baz'
> item.category.append( 'bar' )
> item.category.append( 'baz' )
> item.pubDate = datetime( 2006, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 )
>
> print feed
>
> # or this would be ever so slightly faster
> # (it made a one second difference, when generating 2.5MB of XML, on my
> laptop)
>
> # for buf in feed.toxml(): # toxml() is a generator
> # print buf
>
> Any comments, suggestions, or bug reports are welcome.
>
> Sean
>
> Sean Jamieson wrote:
>
>> Well, it was a bit painfull, and I ran head first into several walls.
>> But here is the 0.1 alpha version of XMLModel.
>> if the attachment didn't work, here is a temporary link:
>>
>> http://www.barriescene.com/xmlmodel.tar.gz
>>
>>
>> Try it, let me know what you think, or of any bugs (patches welcome)
>>
>> I'll figure out an SVN for it later on.
>>
>> Sean
>> P.S. I just joined www.linkedin.com feel free to invite me using this
>> address :-)
>>
>>
>
>
> >
>
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