[XML-SIG] Sequential SAX2 Filters?

[Uche Ogbuji]

On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 22:37 -0500, J. Lujan wrote:
> OK I am relatively new to python and I know this is kind of a general 
> python question but I haven't found an answer any where else. I know you 
> can chain filters by calling nextfilter.startElement(..) and so on. But 
> what if you want sequential filters to modify information that might 
> have been added to the document by a previous filter? I assume you need 
> to parse for each filter but it doesn't matter. What I cannot figure out 
> is how to get the results of the parse into a string that I can pass on 
> to a second parse with a different filter. I hope I am being clear 
> enough here. I want to parse a file and have the result put into a 
> string that I can parse a second time using a different filter. Any 
> suggestions?

If I understand you, you may want to use some variation on
xml.sax.XMLGenerator you might find the following useful:

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/03/12/py-xml.html


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