[Zope] XML

D. Rick Anderson ruger@acsnv.com
06 Mar 2003 13:17:15 -0800


Whoa .. ok. I was under the impression that Zope had built-in support
for XML. If that's the case then I'll just send the data in CSV format.
We have too many servers that will be pulling these reports and I want
to keep the installed products down to a minimum.

Thanks for your help!

Rick

On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 12:49, sean.upton@uniontrib.com wrote:
> Download and use ParsedXML product (v. 1.3+), which created persistent DOM
> documents; use standard DOM API to access, traverse, read, and write data
> from these documents.  This will require that you have the PyXML package
> installed for the version of python you are using to run Zope in your linux
> distro (http://pyxml.sf.net).  Note: PyXML is used to provide the pyexpat
> parser interface to the expat parser, included.
> 
> You might also be able to parse your document without storing it in Zope
> without even using ParsedXML (it sounds like this is what you want to do?).
> If this is what you are looking to do, use the PyDOM dom implementation that
> comes with PyXML, and write a parsing script in a Python module; then write
> an external method that uses that module.  This should be pretty easy.
> 
> Get a copy of the book Python & XML by Jones and Drake (O'Reilly, 2002).
> Also, there is a Parsed-XML-Dev mailing list and a zope-xml list, both on
> zope.org.
> 
> Sean
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: D. Rick Anderson [mailto:ruger@acsnv.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 12:09 PM
> To: zope@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope] XML
> 
> 
> What is the best way to parse XML with Zope? I've been digging all over
> the site, and the docs there keep talking about adding an XML Document,
> but that option doesn't exist on my Zope server (2.6.0 on RH 8.0) and I
> can't find anything indicating that there needs to be a product
> installed.
> 
> Simply put, I want to be able to grab an XML document with webclient()
> and be able to parse the contents of the XML using DTML.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Rick
> 
> 
> 
> 
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