[XML-SIG] Preserving XML and DocType declaration attributes using DOM

[Daniel Veillard]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 09:36:51PM +0100, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
> Dinu Gherman <gherman@darwin.in-berlin.de> writes:
> 
> > Hi, I have something like the DOM code below, where I don't succedd in
> > getting at the doctype attributes. I'm trying to read an XML file with 
> > DOM, manipulate it and save it to a new file... The PrettyPrint function
> > seems not to preserve the attributes of the XML and doctype declarations. 
> > 
> > Is there some other canonical way of doing this, maybe? Or is it an
> > issue with the Python 2.2 and PyXML 0.7 I'm using?
> 
> To my knowledge, the DOM, as specified, does not support this kind of
> operation (atleast not in DOM level 2). Neither does any of the Python
> DOM implementations provide this as an extension.

  libxml2 preserves those informations, the python bindings don't
provide DOM in a strict sense but provide an equivalent (larger)
API.
   http://xmlsoft.org/python.html

Daniel

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