[XML-SIG] no 'writexml' when building a domTree from ext.Sax2

Alexandre CONRAD aconrad.tlv at magic.fr
Mon Jul 26 16:54:56 CEST 2004


Hello,

My idea here is to :
1- read an xml file
2- make modifications to it (delete nodes)
3- save it back to a file

The way I build my DOM tree is with :

     from xml.dom.ext.reader import Sax2

     doc = playlist.xml

     # Create Reader object
     reader = Sax2.Reader()

     # Parse the document
     xmldoc = reader.fromStream(doc)

1- That's how they do it in the manual. So now, I have a dom tree. Good.

2- Now, I can traverse and manipulate my tree using a treeWalker. Good.

3- ... But now, I'm having trouble writing my document back to an XML file.

Before, I used to generate XML files with doc.writexml(f) when doc was 
created with 'doc = xml.dom.minidom.Document()'. But now, I have a dom 
tree from the ext.Sax2.Reader() but I can't 'writexml'.

Shouldn't that 'writexml' method be there ? I need to be able to write 
an XML file without all the indentation and newline stuff.

Also, I'm curious how I can tell Sax2.Reader() to ignore indentations 
and newlines when reading from a pretty printed document.

Best regards,
-- 
Alexandre CONRAD - TLV
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