[Python-ideas] xml generator that uses the with statement
Gerard flanagan
grflanagan at gmail.com
Mon Sep 15 00:49:46 CEST 2008
Mathias Panzenböck wrote:
> Here is a quick and dirty draft of a xml generator that uses the with statement:
> http://twoday.tuwien.ac.at/pub/files/XmlMarkup (ZIP, 3 KB)
>
> It is inspired by rubies XmlMarkup class.
>
> Brief usage:
>>>> from __future__ import with_statement
>>>> from XmlMarkup import *
>>>> import sys
>>>>
>>>> with XmlMarkup(sys.stdout) as xm:
>>>> with xm.root:
>>>> xm.text('foo')
>>>> with xm.prefixMapping('x','http://example.com/x'):
>>>> with xm.tag.ns('http://example.com/x'):
>>>> xm.comment('comment')
>>>> with xm['text']:
>>>> xm.text('bar')
>>>> with xm.tag(foo='bar',egg='spam'):
>>>> pass
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <root>foo<x:tag
> xmlns:x="http://example.com/x"><!--comment--></x:tag><text>bar</text><tag
> foo="bar" egg="spam"></tag></root>
>
[...]
>
> What do you think? :)
>
>
> -panzi
Something similar, but without namespace handling:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.general/579900/
(I like that you have a class called 'maybe' :-)
Regards
Ger
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