RE: problems with try-ark

[Sang Y. <Sa...@Ov...>]

no pyXML as my version is > 1.5.2

here's my output from python:

Python 2.3.2 (#1, Nov 12 2003, 16:24:36)=20
[GCC 2.95.2 19991024 (release)] on sunos5
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import xml
>>> xml.__version__
'1.13'



-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Hogg [mailto:jon...@se...]
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 12:21 AM
To: Sang Yi
Cc: ar...@li...
Subject: Re: problems with try-ark


On 14 Nov 2003, at 01:16, Sang Yi wrote:

>   File "/home/shy2/ark-src/ARK/arkbase/ark/xmlfile.py", line 708, in=20
> zero_attributes
>     if len(node.attributes) !=3D 0:
> TypeError: len() of unsized object
>
> this was on a solaris 2.8 box with python 2.3.2
> anyone else run into this before?  thought i'd ask before i start=20
> digging through the *.py.

This is almost certainly something strange with the XML parser you are=20
using. Have you installed a particular version of PyXML? Or are you=20
just using Python bare?

ark tries to do The Right Thing with whatever XML parser you have=20
available, but it looks like the one it's chosen is broken. Can you try=20
the following things in Python and let us know what you get:

 >>> import xml
 >>> xml.__version__
'1.13'

 >>> import xml.dom.minidom
 >>> doc =3D xml.dom.minidom.parseString( '<test><me/></test>' )
 >>> root =3D doc.documentElement
 >>> len( root.attributes )
0

It's probably just another special case that we need to add to the=20
parser detection logic.

Jonathan

--=20
Jonathan Hogg
Director, Technology

Seventh Wave Systems Ltd.
<http://www.seventh-wave-systems.com/>