On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 15:11 -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote: > On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 14:30 -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > > I have been looking at what library to use for parsing the XML content > > > in the dbus python bindings. Suggestions were to use lxml > > > (http://codespeak.net/lxml/) however we don't currently ship it. Yum > > > currently uses ElementTree for its parsing. lxml aims to be compatible > > > with the ElementTree API with a few exceptions. On top of that it uses > > > libxml2 as its base library and extends the ElementTree API with things > > > like XPath, Relax NG, XSLT and c14n. While the dbus bindings don't need > > > these features some of the other stuff I want to work on may. > > > > Oh - one thing tangentially related - you've seen the simple dbus event > > notifier that nasrat wrote for doing this, right? > > > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-config-list/2005-March/msg00008.html > > > > instead of parsing it on its own it lets yum do the work for it and send > > the events that way. > > > > Looks cool. I'm actually trying to parse introspect data not yum data > it is just yum uses an xml library and it would be nice if both dbus and > yum used the same one. Hmm, I should send a patch to that to Paul to > keep up to date with the new bindings. > > Looking further into it it seems that yum uses some lowlevel stuff > (iterparse) that is not emulated by lxml. > if you don't use iterparse your memory size EXPLODES. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
