getting text out of an xml string

[JT]

Yo,

So I have almost convinced a small program to do what I want it to
do. One thing remains (at least, one thing I know of at the moment):
I am converting xml to some other format, and there are strings in the
xml like this.

The python:

elif v == "content":
print "content", a.childNodes[0].nodeValue

what gets printed:

content \u3c00note xml:space="preserve"\u3e00see forms in red inbox
\u3c00/note\u3e00

what this should say is "see forms in red inbox" because that is what
the the program whose xml file i am trying to convert, properly
displays, because that is what I typed in oh so long ago. So my
question to you is, how can I convert this "enhanced" version to a
normal string? Esp. since there is this "xml:space="preserve"" thing
in there ... I suspect the rest is just some unicode issue. Thanks
for any help.

J "long time no post" T

 

[John Machin]

Yo,

 So I have almost convinced a small program to do what I want it to
do.  One thing remains (at least, one thing I know of at the moment):
I am converting xml to some other format, and there are strings in the
xml like this.

The python:

elif v == "content":
                print "content", a.childNodes[0].nodeValue

what gets printed:

content \u3c00note xml:space="preserve"\u3e00see forms in red inbox
\u3c00/note\u3e00

what this should say is "see forms in red inbox" because that is what
the the program whose xml file i am trying to convert, properly
displays, because that is what I typed in oh so long ago.  So my
question to you is, how can I convert this "enhanced" version to a
normal string?  Esp. since there is this "xml:space="preserve"" thing
in there ... I suspect the rest is just some unicode issue.  Thanks
for any help.

       J "long time no post" T

Your data has been FUABARred (the first A being for Almost) -- the
"\u3c00" and "\u3e00" were once "<" and ">" respectively. You will
need to show (a) a snippet of the xml file including the data that has
the problem (b) the code that you have written, cut down to a small
script that is runnable and displays the problem. Tell us what version
of Python you are running, on what OS.

 

[JT]

Your data has been FUABARred (the first A being for Almost) -- the
"\u3c00" and "\u3e00" were once "<" and ">" respectively. You will

Hi John,

I realized that a few minutes after posting. I then realized that
I could just extract the text between the stuff with \u3c00 xml
preserve etc, which I did; it was good enough since it was a one-off
affair, I had to convert a to-do list from one program to another.
Thanks for replying and sorry for the noise

JT

 

[John Machin]

Hi John,

   I realized that a few minutes after posting.  I then realized that
I could just extract the text between the stuff with \u3c00 xml
preserve etc, which I did; it was good enough since it was a one-off
affair, I had to convert a to-do list from one program to another.
Thanks for replying and sorry for the noise

Next time you need to extract some data from an xml file, please (for
your own good) don't do whatever you did in that code -- note that the
unicode equivalent of "<" is u"\u003c", NOT u"\u3c00"; I wasn't joking
when I said it had been FU.

 

[björn lundin]

Next time you need to extract some data from an xml file, please (for
your own good) don't do whatever you did in that code -- note that the
unicode equivalent of "<" is u"\u003c", NOT u"\u3c00"; I wasn't joking
when I said it had been FU.

Is that perhaps the doing of going from littleEndian to bigEndian
(or vice versa) machines with that file, in some kind of strange
binary mode?
/björn