Package xml :: Package dom :: Module minidom

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Module minidom

minidom.py -- a lightweight DOM implementation.

parse("foo.xml")

parseString("<foo><bar/></foo>")

Todo:
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 * convenience methods for getting elements and text.
 * more testing
 * bring some of the writer and linearizer code into conformance with this
        interface
 * SAX 2 namespaces

Classes

Node

DocumentFragment

Attr

NamedNodeMap
The attribute list is a transient interface to the underlying dictionaries.

AttributeList
The attribute list is a transient interface to the underlying dictionaries.

TypeInfo

Element

Childless
Mixin that makes childless-ness easy to implement and avoids the complexity of the Node methods that deal with children.

ProcessingInstruction

CharacterData

Text

Comment

CDATASection

ReadOnlySequentialNamedNodeMap

Identified
Mix-in class that supports the publicId and systemId attributes.

DocumentType

Entity

Notation

DOMImplementation

ElementInfo
Object that represents content-model information for an element.

Document

Functions

_append_child(self, node)

_in_document(node)

_write_data(writer, data)
Writes datachars to writer.

_get_elements_by_tagName_helper(parent, name, rc)

_get_elements_by_tagName_ns_helper(parent, nsURI, localName, rc)

_set_attribute_node(element, attr)

_get_containing_element(node)

_get_containing_entref(node)

_clear_id_cache(node)

_clone_node(node, deep, newOwnerDocument)
Clone a node and give it the new owner document.

_nssplit(qualifiedName)

_get_StringIO()

_do_pulldom_parse(func, args, kwargs)

parse(file, parser=None, bufsize=None)
Parse a file into a DOM by filename or file object.

parseString(string, parser=None)
Parse a file into a DOM from a string.

getDOMImplementation(features=None)

Variables

_nodeTypes_with_children = (1, 5)

_no_type = <TypeInfo None>

Imports: xml, EMPTY_NAMESPACE, EMPTY_PREFIX, XMLNS_NAMESPACE, domreg, NodeList, EmptyNodeList, defproperty, StringTypes, DOMImplementationLS, DocumentLS

Function Details

_clone_node(node, deep, newOwnerDocument)

Clone a node and give it the new owner document. Called by Node.cloneNode and Document.importNode