deliberately ignore a small chance of newline characters in values); names and
values are reencoded to the console encoding. Text nodes and comments are
collected in a file named "text", stripped and reencoded. The filesystem is
-read-only. ElementTree-based implementation doesn't show namespaces as
-attributes; lxml.etree-based implementation shows namespaces as a separate file
-"namespaces"; every child tag includes its parent's namespaces.
+read-only.
+
+Implementation based on minidom doesn't understand namespaces, it just shows
+them among other attributes. ElementTree-based implementation doesn't show
+namespaces at all. Implementation based on lxml.etree shows namespaces in a
+separate file "namespaces"; every child tag includes its parent's namespaces.
It is useful to have a top-down view on an XML structure but it's especially
convenient to extract text values from tags. One can get, for example, a
"""
-__version__ = "0.5.0"
+__version__ = "0.5.1"
__author__ = "Oleg Broytman <phd@phdru.name>"
__copyright__ = "Copyright (C) 2013 PhiloSoft Design"
__license__ = "GPL"
if text: text_accumulator.append(text)
for element in node:
if not self.istag(element):
- text = u"<!--%s-->" % text
+ text = u"<!--%s-->" % element.text
text_accumulator.append(text)
if node.tail:
text = node.tail.strip()
View an XML file in Midnight Commander as a filesystem.
+WHAT'S NEW in version 0.5.1 (2013-11-20)
+ Fixed a bug in handling comments.
+
WHAT'S NEW in version 0.5.0 (2013-11-19)
Added lxml.etree-based implementation.