Re: [Jython-users] XML in Jython: ElementTree?

[Moore, G. <Gre...@ad...>]

Berco,

I believe that if you can use a version of elementtree that doesn't have
any C code in it you should be ok. The effbot website says "The Element
type is available as a pure-Python implementation for Python 1.5.2 and
later." Check out http://effbot.org/downloads/#elementtree. My
understanding is that if its pure python and works with python 2.3 then
it should work for Jython 2.2. If I've wrong, maybe one of the other
list members will correct me.

As far as other XML libs, I needed to use a Java class and 4domj
http://www.dom4j.org/index.html seems, imho, to be one of the easier
ones to use, provides a lot of features, and not too far off from the
simplicity of elementtree.=20

Greg.

-----Original Message-----
From: jyt...@li...
[mailto:jyt...@li...] On Behalf Of cyberco
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 6:03 AM
To: jyt...@li...
Subject: [Jython-users] XML in Jython: ElementTree?

I would like to use the excellent ElementTree for some simple XML
work, but unfortunately it depends on the shared lib 'expat' so Jython
can't import it. Or can it? Anybody here that succeeded?

I've read that previous versions of elementtree had a way to avoid
expat by using SimpleXMLTreeBuilder, but that class has been removed
now (although the error message still says "No module named expat; use
SimpleXMLTreeBuilder instead").

If elementtree is a no go (I hope not) what other XML parsing package
(python) or lib (java) would you recommend? (I prefer the Python
packages since those are generally much simpler to use.)

Cheers,
Berco


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