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Re: parsing multiple root element XML into text

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Alain Ketterlin <alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>:

> How do you specify the encoding of sexprs? How can you require that an
> attribute value must match the value of an id-attribute? or whatever
> insanely complex integrity rule that XML Schemas lets you express? And
> so on.

I don't suppose there is a universal schema language available for S
expressions, nor do I suppose many people want such a thing. You specify
S expression encoding the way you specify Python library functions.

I think the worst part of XML is that you can't parse it without a DTD
or schema.

> If all you need to do is parse properly bracketed input, go with
> sexprs, or json, or yaml, or pickle if both ends are python programs.

I was very hopeful about json until I discovered they require the parser
to dynamically support five different character encodings.

XML at least standardized on UTF-8.

I have found ast.literal_eval() to be highly usable.

Pickle I would advise you to stay away from: <URL:
http://lwn.net/Articles/595352/>.


Marko

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parsing multiple root element XML into text Percy Tambunan <percy.tambunan@gmail.com> - 2014-05-09 01:59 -0700
  Re: parsing multiple root element XML into text Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-05-09 12:01 +0300
  Re: parsing multiple root element XML into text Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-09 19:02 +1000
    Re: parsing multiple root element XML into text Percy Tambunan <percy.tambunan@gmail.com> - 2014-05-11 21:12 -0700
      Re: parsing multiple root element XML into text Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-05-12 10:22 +0200
  Re: parsing multiple root element XML into text Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2014-05-09 11:13 +0200
  Re: parsing multiple root element XML into text Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-09 19:15 +1000
  Re: parsing multiple root element XML into text Alain Ketterlin <alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> - 2014-05-09 11:51 +0200
    Re: parsing multiple root element XML into text Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-05-09 13:33 +0300
      Re: parsing multiple root element XML into text Alain Ketterlin <alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> - 2014-05-09 14:01 +0200
        Re: parsing multiple root element XML into text Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-05-09 15:31 +0300
          Re: parsing multiple root element XML into text Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-05-09 15:38 +0300
            Re: parsing multiple root element XML into text Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2014-05-09 15:55 +0200
              Re: parsing multiple root element XML into text Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-05-09 18:29 +0300
            Re: parsing multiple root element XML into text Burak Arslan <burak.arslan@arskom.com.tr> - 2014-05-09 19:52 +0300
            Re: parsing multiple root element XML into text Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2014-05-09 21:51 +0200
          Re: parsing multiple root element XML into text Alain Ketterlin <alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> - 2014-05-09 17:50 +0200
            Re: parsing multiple root element XML into text Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-05-09 19:15 +0300
              Re: parsing multiple root element XML into text Alain Ketterlin <alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> - 2014-05-09 19:16 +0200
                Re: parsing multiple root element XML into text Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-05-09 21:04 +0300
                Re: parsing multiple root element XML into text Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2014-05-09 21:46 +0200

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