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Re: parsing nested unbounded XML fields with ElementTree

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On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 18:25:55 -0500, Larry Martell wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Larry Martell
> >> <larry.martell@gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > On Monday, November 25, 2013 5:30:44 PM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> First off, please clarify: Are there five corresponding </Node> tags
> >> >> later on? If not, it's not XML, and nesting will have to be defined
> >> >> some other way.
> >> >
> >> > Yes, there are corresponding </Node> tags. I just didn't show them.
> >>
> >> Good good, I just saw the "unbounded" in your subject line and got
> >> worried :) I'm pretty sure there's a way to parse that will preserve
> >> the current nesting information, but others can describe that better
> >> than I can.
> >>
> >>
> > The term 'unbounded' is used in the XML xsd file like this:
> >
> > <xs:sequence maxOccurs="unbounded">
> >
> >
> >> >> Secondly, please get off Google Groups. Your initial post is
> >> >> malformed, and unless you specifically fight the software, your
> >> >> replies will be even more malformed, to the point of being quite
> >> >> annoying. There are many other ways to read a newsgroup, or you can
> >> >> subscribe to the mailing list python-list@python.org, which carries
> >> >> the same content.
> >> >
> >> > Not sure what you mean by malformed. I don't really care for Google
> >> Groups,
> >> > but I've been using it to post to this any other groups for years
> >> > (since
> >> rn
> >> > and deja news went away) and no one ever said my posts were
> >> > malformed. In any case, I did not know the group was available as a
> >> > ML. I've subbed to that and will post that way.
> >>
> >> The mailing list works well for me too. Google Groups is deceptively
> >> easy for a lot of people, but if you look through the list's archives,
> >> you'll see that the posts it makes are unwrapped (and thus string out
> >> to the right an arbitrary length), and all quoted text is
> >> double-spaced, among other problems. Its users are generally unaware of
> >> this, and like you are not maliciously inflicting that on us all, but
> >> that doesn't make it any less painful to read :) Thanks for switching.
> >>
> >>
> > I had noticed the double spacing and I always fixed that when I replied.
> > <div dir="ltr">On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Chris Angelico <span
> > dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:rosuav@gmail.com"
> > target="_blank">rosuav@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div
> > class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
> > <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px
> > 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-
> left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div
> > class="im">On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Larry Martell &lt;<a
> > href="mailto:larry.martell@gmail.com">larry.martell@gmail.com</a>&gt;
> > wrote:<br>
> >
> > &gt; On Monday, November 25, 2013 5:30:44 PM UTC-5, Chris Angelico
> > wrote:<br>
> > &gt;<br>
> > </div><div class="im">&gt;&gt; First off, please clarify: Are there five
> > corresponding &lt;/Node&gt; tags<br>
> > &gt;&gt; later on? If not, it&#39;s not XML, and nesting will have to be
> > defined<br>
> > &gt;&gt; some other way.<br>
> > &gt;<br>
> > &gt; Yes, there are corresponding &lt;/Node&gt; tags. I just didn&#39;t
> > show them.<br>
> > <br>
> > </div>Good good, I just saw the &quot;unbounded&quot; in your subject
> > line and got<br>
> > worried :) I&#39;m pretty sure there&#39;s a way to parse that will
> > preserve<br>
> > the current nesting information, but others can describe that better<br>
> > than I can.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The term
> > &#39;unbounded&#39; is used in the XML xsd file like
> > this:</div><div><br></div><div>&lt;xs:sequence
> > maxOccurs=&quot;unbounded&quot;&gt;<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote
> > class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px
> > 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-
> left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
> >
> > <div class="im"><br>
> > &gt;&gt; Secondly, please get off Google Groups. Your initial post
> > is<br>
> > &gt;&gt; malformed, and unless you specifically fight the software,
> > your<br>
> > &gt;&gt; replies will be even more malformed, to the point of being
> > quite<br>
> > &gt;&gt; annoying. There are many other ways to read a newsgroup, or you
> > can<br>
> > &gt;&gt; subscribe to the mailing list <a
> > href="mailto:python-list@python.org">python-list@python.org</a>, which
> > carries<br>
> > &gt;&gt; the same content.<br>
> > &gt;<br>
> > &gt; Not sure what you mean by malformed. I don&#39;t really care for
> > Google Groups,<br>
> > &gt; but I&#39;ve been using it to post to this any other groups for
> > years (since rn<br>
> > &gt; and deja news went away) and no one ever said my posts were
> > malformed. In<br>
> > &gt; any case, I did not know the group was available as a ML. I&#39;ve
> > subbed to<br>
> > &gt; that and will post that way.<br>
> > <br>
> > </div>The mailing list works well for me too. Google Groups is
> > deceptively<br>
> > easy for a lot of people, but if you look through the list&#39;s
> > archives,<br>
> > you&#39;ll see that the posts it makes are unwrapped (and thus string
> > out<br>
> > to the right an arbitrary length), and all quoted text is<br>
> > double-spaced, among other problems. Its users are generally unaware<br>
> > of this, and like you are not maliciously inflicting that on us all,<br>
> > but that doesn&#39;t make it any less painful to read :) Thanks for<br>
> > switching.<br><span class=""><font
> > color="#888888"><br></font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I had
> > noticed the double spacing and I always fixed that when I replied.
> >  </div></div><br></div></div>
>
>
> if you could now change your male client


What about my female client?

>
> to send in plane text

How about plain text?

> only we
> would not get this duplicated HTML copy of the post which is just as
> annoying as the double spacing form GG (probably more so).

Sorry, didn't realize it was sending in HMTL. I had it set to plain
text, but when the awful gmail update came out it seems to have
reverted to HTML. Hopefully this is better.

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Re: parsing nested unbounded XML fields with ElementTree Alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2013-11-26 10:41 +0000
  Re: parsing nested unbounded XML fields with ElementTree Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2013-11-26 06:59 -0500
  Re: parsing nested unbounded XML fields with ElementTree Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-26 23:20 +1100
  Re: parsing nested unbounded XML fields with ElementTree alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2013-11-26 12:57 +0000

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