Minidom Extension

Short presentation

Functions to improve xml.dom.minidom [1] tools in Python.

class DOMCompanion :

• def init(self, doc = None) : to build a DOM DocumentCompanion
• def parse(self, file, validate = False): to load an XML file
• def getElementsByTagName(self, name) : DOM getElementsByTagName
• def getElementById(self, id) : to retrieve an element by its ID
• def getAttributsByIdref(self, id) : to retrieve attributs that refers to an ID
• def toLighter(self, del_spaces = True, del_comments = True, del_pi = True) : to suppress text nodes (with only separators), processing instructions and/or comments
• def validate(self) : to validate the XML according its DTD (enrich it too)
• def xpath(self, xp) : to explore the XML tree using XPath 1.0

Exemple

from minidom_ext.DOMCompanion import DOMCompanion

cine = DOMCompanion()
cine.parse("semaine10.xml", True)
print(cine.doc.toxml())
print(cine.getElementById('Ka'))
print(cine.toLighter().toxml())

How to install ?

pip install minidom-ext

Links

[1] Python 'minidom' : https://docs.python.org/3/library/xml.dom.minidom.html

[2] DOM using Python : https://docs.python.org/3/library/xml.dom.html

(c) E. Desmontils, University of Nantes, november 2020