xml parsing with sax

Harald Kirsch kirschh at lionbioscience.com
Fri Apr 27 13:11:42 EDT 2001


"Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> writes:

> "Harald Kirsch" <kirschh at lionbioscience.com> wrote in message
> news:yv28zkm63gi.fsf at lionsp093.lion-ag.de...
>     [snip]
> > it possible to push a pseudo root element in front of a stream parsed
> > with
> >
> >   xml.sax.parse(sys.stdin, ...)
> 
> 
> If the stream fits in memory, it's clearly easy:

No, it does not fit.

[snip]
> def wrapWith(tag, fileob):
>     return FileWrappedWithTag(tag, fileob)
> 
> xml.sax.parse(wrapWith("fakedoc",sys.stdin), Handler())
> 
> 
> Fortunately, the parser just calls .read(N) on its

*That* was the information I was missing. The rest is then more or
less straighforward, as your example code demonstrates.

Thanks,
  Harald Kirsch

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