On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 1:14 AM, Christopher Spears
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I've been working on a way to parse an XML document and convert it into a
> python dictionary. I want to maintain the hierarchy of the XML. Here is the
> sample XML I have been working on:
>
> <collection>
> <comic title="Sandman" number='62'>
> <writer>Neil Gaiman</writer>
> <penciller pages='1-9,18-24'>Glyn Dillon</penciller>
> <penciller pages="10-17">Charles Vess</penciller>
> </comic>
> </collection>
> This is the output:
> 163>./parseXML.py
> {'collection': {('comic', {'number': '62', 'title': 'Sandman'}): [<Element
> writer at -482193f4>, <Element penciller at -482193cc>, <Element penciller at
> -482193a4>]}}
This seems an odd format. How are you going to use it? How is this
better than the native ElementTree structure?
> The script doesn't descend all of the way down because I'm not sure how to
> hand a XML document that may have multiple layers. Advice anyone? Would
> this be a job for recursion?
Yes. Here is an example that might be helpful:
http://code.activestate.com/recipes/410469/
Kent
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