Re: [Docstring-develop] Re: [XML-SIG] Validation from Python code?

[David G. <dgo...@bi...>]

on 2001-07-29 7:02 PM, Garth T Kidd (ga...@de...) wrote:
> PyTREX looks like it can nicely validate the parser output (via
> ``.asdom().toxml()``), but doesn't seem to provide tools for
> automatically generating the patterns from the DTD.

I'm not worried about that. There are tools out there, and it shouldn't be a
frequent task. Incremental maintenance should be easy.

> I can understand David's reluctance to use an external parser if he can
> possibly avoid it; it just took me Much Work to get PyXML and 4Suite to
> build and install under Cygwin.

Yes, and I'm loathe to include anything but pure Python in the project. I
work on a compiler-challenged OS, so feel like a second-class citizen when
I'd like to use some C extension. Not to mention that I haven't done any C
programming for 10 years.

> David, are you intending your tests to be run only during testing, or as
> an optional "paranoid mode" for dps and restructuredtext where people
> can have all of their output checked for validity versus the DTD? Both?

Both. Just having "paranoid mode" automatically means that it's available
for testing too.

David