Case-insensitive XML Parsing

[Martin v. Löwis]

sandeep at octetsoft.com (C. R. Sandeep) writes:

>      I am using the xml.dom.minidom module to do some XML parsing. Is
> there any way I can set an option to do case-insensitive parsing? 

Not built-in, no. You could do the following things:

- lower-case the entire input before parsing;
- if you know the complete list of tags in advance:
  replace all misspellings of these tags before parsing.

Another option, if you have PyXML, is to use sgmlop. sgmlop's
SGMLParser is case-insensitive. You need to create an sgmlop SAX
driver (i.e. "xml.sax.drivers2.drv_sgmlop"), and pass this to
minidom.parse.

Notice that the parser will then operate in SGML mode, which may or
may not work for your input.

Regards,
Martin