[XML-SIG] setAttribute DOM question-newbie

Thomas B. Passin tpassin@home.com
Thu, 15 Nov 2001 09:07:28 -0500


[Guy Robinson]

> Hello Alexandre,
>
> thanks for replying, Just this minute worked it out. The problem was the
my
> list row contains numbers and text. eg. (1, 'Expat', 'an XML parser')
>
> working code:
>
>     for row in DbRec:
>         new_elem = doc.createElement( 'ITEM')
>         for i in range(len(QryAttrName)):
>             s = row[i]
>             if type(s) != type(""):
>                 s = `s`

I would have used
     s=str(row[i])

A bit simpler...

Tom P