Re: Convert raw data to XML

elrondrules@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Jan 30, 12:05 pm, John Nagle <n...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
elrondru...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Jan 29, 8:54 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

En Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:42:07 -0300, <elrondru...@xxxxxxxxx> escribió:
the reason I wanted to write it as a file was to parse the file, look
for a specific attribute and execute a set of commands based on the
value of the attribute.. also i needed to display the output of the
http post in a more readable format..

That's straightforward. You confused people by asking the
wrong question. You wrote "Convert raw data to XML", but what
you want to do is parse XML and extract data from it.

This will do what you want:

http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/

For starters, try

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulStoneSoup
xmlstring = somexml ## get your XML into here as one big
string
soup = BeautifulStoneSoup(xmlstring) # parse XML into tree
print soup.prettify() # print out in indented format

"soup" is a tree structure representing the XML, and there are
functions to easily find items in the tree by tag name, attribute,
and such. Work on the tree, not a file with the text of the indented
output.

John Nagle

is there any other way to do this without using BeautifulStoneSoup..
using existing minidom or ext..
i dont want to install anything new
yes, write it ;-)




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