XML DOM: XML/XHTML inside a text node
Walter Dörwald
walter at livinglogic.de
Fri Nov 4 08:51:10 EST 2005
noahlt at gmail.com wrote:
> In my program, I get input from the user and insert it into an XHTML
> document. Sometimes, this input will contain XHTML, but since I'm
> inserting it as a text node, xml.dom.minidom escapes the angle brackets
> ('<' becomes '<', '>' becomes '>'). I want to be able to
> override this behavior cleanly. I know I could pipe the input through
> a SAX parser and create nodes to insert into the tree, but that seems
> kind of messy. Is there a better way?
You could try version 2.13 of XIST (http://www.livinglogic.de/Python/xist)
Code looks like this:
from ll.xist.ns import html, specials
text = "Number 1 ... the <b>larch</b>"
e = html.div(
html.h1("And now for something completely different"),
html.p(specials.literal(text))
)
print e.asBytes()
This prints:
<div><h1>And now for something completely different</h1><p>Number 1 ...
the <b>larch</b></p></div>
I hope this is what you need.
Bye,
Walter Dörwald
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