design question

[Istvan Albert]

Ajay wrote:

> so thats what i need to do. i read the policy and preferences as DOM
> hierarchies and then starting from rule1 in the preference, 

Do you really need a DOM representation for this? It seems to me that
you are sequentially reading the XML file to extract the
rules from it.

Try element-tree for a simple and fast, pure-python XML representation.

http://effbot.org/zone/element-index.htm

Istvan.