Howto write XML file with comments?

[Alexander Eisenhuth]

Hello,

- I've to write a XML document including comments
- the document should be formatted that it could be viewed with a text editor

What is the fastest (time for realization) approach doing it in python 2.5?

Any help or hints are very welcome

Thanks
Alexander

 

[Stefan Behnel]

Alexander Eisenhuth, 08.07.2010 11:08:

- I've to write a XML document including comments

"write" in the sense of typing in a text editor? Or constructing one
programmatically in memory? Or ... ?

And what kind of data from what kind of source do you want to put into the
document?

All of that has an impact on the 'right' answer.

- the document should be formatted that it could be viewed with a text
editor

What is the fastest (time for realization) approach doing it in python 2.5?

If you mean to build an XML document programmatically, potentially using
data that you get from somewhere, take a look at cElementTree. There's also
a short recipe for pretty printing the tree before writing it out.

Stefan

 

[Alexander Eisenhuth]

Alexander Eisenhuth, 08.07.2010 11:08:

"write" in the sense of typing in a text editor? Or constructing one
programmatically in memory? Or ... ?

write means write to a file

And what kind of data from what kind of source do you want to put into
the document?

Data is present as tags and attributes

All of that has an impact on the 'right' answer.



If you mean to build an XML document programmatically, potentially using
data that you get from somewhere, take a look at cElementTree. There's
also a short recipe for pretty printing the tree before writing it out.

Is the API of cElementTree different from ElementTree in the python standard
library?

 

[Stefan Behnel]

Alexander Eisenhuth, 08.07.2010 12:07:

write means write to a file

You seam to imply that it's obvious what you want to do. From the little
information that you give us, it's not.

Data is present as tags and attributes

Whatever that is supposed to mean in this context.


.... and it still does.

Is the API of cElementTree different from ElementTree in the python
standard library?

Same thing, different import.

Note that both were updated in Py2.7, BTW.

Stefan

 

[Alexander Eisenhuth]

Sorry for my little riddle, but you solved it quite good with:

- http://effbot.org/zone/element-lib.htm#prettyprint

and comments are also in ElementTree (xml.etree.ElementTree.Comment)

Thanks