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Re: parsing nested unbounded XML fields with ElementTree

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On 26/11/13 11:59, Larry Martell wrote:
> 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.
sorry, Typing too quickly without paying attention.

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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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