> [ The only SOA/XML book that addresses this side of XML usage
> is the excellent "SOA - A Field Guide" by Peter Erls. Erls also
> suggests some mitigating strategies to get round it.]
Oops, don't rely on memory...
That is Thomas Erl not Peter Erls.
And of course there may be other SOAP/XML boo
Just picked this up after being out for most of the week...
"Carroll, Barry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> One reason to for choosing a human-readable format is the desire to
> visually confirm the correctness of the stored data and format.
Thats a very dangerous asumption, how do you d
Carroll, Barry wrote:
> So here's my off-topic question: Ajax is being touted as the 'best-known
> method' (BKM) for making dynamic browser-based applications, and XML is
> the BKM for transferring data in Ajax land. If XML is a bad idea for
> network data-transfer, what medium should be used inst
Alan, Ralph, et al:
This is a little off-topic, I guess, being not directly related to
Python. Oh, well. Here are a couple of personal opinions and a
question about XML.
> -Original Message-
> Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 08:55:17 +0100
> From: "Alan Gauld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re:
Kent, Danny, Lawrence, et. al.
Thanks!
I was kind of cringing as I sent this plaint/rant, but it seems I'm not
the only one who has had trouble grokking DOM. I spanked the problem
temporarily with regex, but can now actually fix it properly.
Appreciate all the help!On 6/10/06, Kent Johnson <[
In my opinion the standard DOM models are the most awkward way to deal
with XML. If you are trying to get data from HTML on a web page, look at
BeautifulSoup. For general XML processing, look at ElementTree. They are
both simpler than DOM.
http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
http://eff
> >> for item in itemIDs:
> >> print item
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> Okay, no problem. Now all I have to do is figure out which
> particlular.string.of.words.interconnected.by.periods to
> pass to extract the values.
>
> >> for item in itemIDs:
> >> print item.nodeValue
>
> Se
>>> from xml.dom.minidom import parse, parseString
>
>>> data = response.read()
>>> connection.close()
>>> response = parseString(data)
>>> itemIDs = response.getElementsByTagName("ItemID")
>>> response.unlink()
^
Hi Doug,
What's going on here? Why unlink()?
> Okay, no p
I realize XML is going to save us all from something or other, but I just can't get my head around it.
I have been trying to do what should be a very simple action: Extract values from element tags.
I first grab my data from a website with httplib:
>> connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection(serve
