python xml dom help please

[Miklós]

Without having any thorough look at your (recursive)'deepen' function, I can
see there's no termination condition for the recursion....
So that's one reason this won't work the way you want it to.

Miklós


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> ---------------
> #!/usr/bin/env python
>
> from xml.dom.ext.reader  import PyExpat
> from xml.dom.ext         import PrettyPrint
>
> import sys
>
> def deepen(nodeList):
>   for node in nodeList:
>     print(node.nodeName)
>     if node.previousSibling != None:
>       if node.previousSibling.nodeType == node.ELEMENT_NODE:
>         if node.previousSibling.hasChildNodes():
>           print("has children")
>           node.previousSibling.lastChild.appendChild(node)
>         else:
>           node.previousSibling.appendChild(node)
>     deepen(node.childNodes)
>