There's also Amara, which is designed to be Pythonic: http://uche.ogbuji.net/uche.ogbuji.net/tech/4suite/amara/
On 12/7/05, Jean-Marc Orliaguet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martijn Faassen wrote: > > > Andreas Jung wrote: > > > >>> I'm about to write an xml importer for importing simple data > >>> (properties, > >>> dictionaries). Exporting is easy, importing is trickier because a > >>> parser > >>> is required. > >>> > >>> Is there any prefered framework for doing such things in zope3 (zope2)? > >> > > > >> Sax or DOM...it depends on the usecase and the algorithmic approach > >> you take. Sax is fast but you have to build your own datastructures, > >> DOM is slow, takes a lot of memory but it gives you a tree to perform > >> any fancy operation on it.. > > > > > > DOM is also not particularly Pythonic (neither is SAX, but it is > > relatively simple at least). You could also look into ElementTree (or > > lxml, which implements that API too). ElementTree (though not yet > > lxml) also introduces iterparse, which is a kind of streaming version > > of the ElementTree API. > > > > ElementTree's API is a much nicer way to work with XML from Python > > than DOM. Also it's more lightweight than even MiniDOM. > > > > Regards, > > > > Martijn > > > thanks for the info Martijn, I'm going to look at it. > > I've done some work with ElementTree for CPSIO, and I haven't found it > very easy to use because of all the extra namespace URI, and xpath stuff > used for the tree navigation (xpath_findall, ..) which seem to get in > the way. Also it could be that I find the DOM approach easier since I'm > used to it in javascript already. > > the question is also about being able to reuse parts of the > export/import code of CMFSetup / GenericSetup and possibly simplify the > zope2 -> zope3 migration of existing applications. > > best > /JM > > > _______________________________________________ > Zope3-dev mailing list > Zope3-dev@zope.org > Unsub: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/options/zope3-dev/tristil%40gmail.com > > -- -J. Method -- -J. Method _______________________________________________ Zope3-dev mailing list Zope3-dev@zope.org Unsub: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/options/zope3-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com