Hi,
Ryan said:
If I have a cElementTree.ElementTree (or the one from the Standard
Library), can I use lxml's validation features on it since it
implements the same ElementTree API?
Not directly. lxml and cElementTree use different tree models internally, so
you can't just apply C-implemented features of one to the other.
Any reason you can't just use lxml /instead/ of cElementTree?
In case you really want to combine both: to validate the tree, you only need
to create an lxml tree from your ElementTree in a one-way operation, which is
easy, as this can be done through the (identical) API. Just create a new lxml
Element and then traverse the ElementTree recursively, create a new SubElement
for each child you find, and set its text, tail and attrib properties.
Something like this might work (though untested):
class TreeMigrator(object):
def __init__(ET_impl_from, ET_impl_to):
self.Element = ET_impl_to.Element
self.SubElement = ET_impl_to.SubElement
def copyChildren(self, from_parent, to_parent):
for from_child in from_parent:
tag = from_child.tag
if not isinstance(tag, basestring): # skip Comments etc.
continue
to_child = self.SubElement(
to_parent, tag, **from_child.attrib)
to_child.text = child.text
to_child.tail = child.tail
self.copyChildren(from_child, to_child)
def __call__(self, from_root):
tag = from_root.tag
to_root = self.Element(tag, **from_root.attrib)
to_root.text = from_root.text
to_root.tail = from_root.tail
if isinstance(tag, basestring): # skip Comments etc.
self.copyChildren(from_root, to_root)
return to_root
Feel free to finish it up and send it back to the list.
Stefan
