Re: python from Java

From: Alan Kennedy (alanmk_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/07/04 

Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 13:07:04 +0100

[Alan Kennedy]
>>I think the best solution for you is to use and event-based python
>>parser to parse your XML.

and

>>What you should consider is building your own object model, based on the
>>events generated by your SAX parser. Although this sounds hard, it is
>>actually extremely easy, as this ActiveState cookbook entry shows.
>>
>>http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/149368
>>
>>There are also multiple cpython products which will build a python
>>object model from XML events: all of these should be comparatively cpu
>>and memory efficient.
>>
>>Objectify
>>http://gnosis.cx/download/gnosis/xml/objectify
>>
>>Anobind
>>http://uche.ogbuji.net/tech/4Suite/anobind/
>>
>>ElementTree
>>http://effbot.org/downloads/#elementtree

[Ajay]
> okay i tried the above approaches but no luck. See the problem is an XML
> parser which works on a PDA - pythonce. Now elementtree uses pyexpat
> (which pythonce doesn't have), objectify just needs expat which i dont
> have either and anobind needs 4Suite - there is no port for it to a PDA.
> so i am back to where i was earlier.
> looking for a reasonably fast and efficient xml parser that works on a PDA
> (DOM or SAX, i dont care)

I see.

OK, rather than us trying to suggest multiple possible solutions, only
to find out that they are not supported on python-ce, because of lack of
expat, etc, please can you list for us the xml parsers that *do* work on
python-ce.

Particularly, I'm interested in whether the xml.sax modules work. Also,
check to see if sgmllib works, since that can also be used as an
efficient XML parser. There's got to be *some* event-based XML parser on
python-ce, even if it is pure-python.

Start by looking at this HOWTO, and see if you can get any of the
examples running.

http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/topics/howto/section-SAX.html

Once you've got a working event parser, then we'll figure out the best
way to build a python object model for your xml files.

regards, 

-- 
alan kennedy
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