Re: parsing multiple root element XML into text

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Marko Rauhamaa, 09.05.2014 20:04:
> I think the worst part of XML is that you can't parse it without a DTD
> or schema.

Nonsense.


> 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.

Not really. Definitely not "standardized". It's just the default if there
is no explicit encoding or BOM. That doesn't keep you from passing around
XML in EBCDIC, if you feel like it.


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

Well, there's json.loads(), which is more commonly used for this task.

Stefan

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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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