Re: Modules for Python writng to XML

["Aloys Baillet" <aloys.baillet(at)gmail.com>]

Hi Andre,

minidom is the slowest ever way of getting XML in Python... Even slower than Microsoft XML parsing for JScript...
Regarding the size of the XML, you should have a closer look at cElementTree (the fastest) or lxml, less fast but more powerful.

Just my 2 cents...


Aloys

On 10/27/06, Andre DeAngelis <andre.deangelis@ubisoft.com > wrote:

Thanks Francois, Patrick and Steven,

 

This is a big help.

 

Andre

 

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From: owner-xsi@Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi@Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of FranÃois Painchaud
Sent: October 26, 2006 1:05 PM
To: XSI@Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: Modules for Python writng to XML

 

Hi Andre,

Module xml.dom.minidom does a fine job.
For example, to parse and save back an XML file:

    import xml.dom.minidom
   
    oSceneTOCDoc = xml.dom.minidom.parse( sSceneTOCPath )
   
    # Do your XML stuff with oSceneTOCDoc here.
   
    oSceneTOCFile = open( sSceneTOCPath, "w" )
    oSceneTOCDoc.writexml( oSceneTOCFile )
    oSceneTOCFile.close()

For references, see:
    http://docs.python.org/lib/module-xml.dom.minidom.html
    http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythonxml/index.html
    http://softimage.wiki.avid.com/index.php/XML_%28XSISDK%29

FranÃois

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Sujet:	Modules for Python writng to XML
Date:	Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:53:07 -0400
De:	Andre DeAngelis <andre.deangelis@ubisoft.com>
Pour:	<XSI@Softimage.COM>

 

Hello Python Gurus out there

I am porting an old script from jscript to python for exporting cluster

data to XML.

There seems to be more than one XML module for Python, so I was

wondering if here were any recommendations which to use.  

If anyone could share an example of it in use, that of course would be

very much appreciated.

Andre 

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