Hi,
I'm working on creating an xml structure like the following, as
effiecienty and elegantly as possible using minidom preferably:
#<region>
# <population>
# <total>
# 0
# </total>
# <R>
# 0
# </R>
# <C>
# 0
# </C>
# <I>
# 0
# </I>
# </population>
# <cities>
# <city1>
# <cityname/>
# <mayor/>
# <morelater/>
# <citypopulation>
# <R>
# 0
# </R>
# <C>
# 0
# </C>
# <I>
# 0
# </I>
# </citypopulation>
# </city1>
# <city2>
# <cityname/>
# <mayor/>
# <morelater/>
# <citypopulation>
# <R>
# 0
# </R>
# <C>
# 0
# </C>
# <I>
# 0
# </I>
# </citypopulation>
# </city2>
# <city3 and so on>
# <cityname/>
# <mayor/>
# <morelater/>
# <citypopulation>
# <R>
# 0
# </R>
# <C>
# 0
# </C>
# <I>
# 0
# </I>
# </citypopulation>
# </city3 and so on>
# </cities>
#</region>
(left out)
The following code accomplishes that, but being a newb to xml..I'm not
sure if this can be done a better (I'd like to stick with dom due to
the nature of this app):
(left textnode parts like mayor, cityname out to keep code concise for
now)
# from xml.dom.minidom import parseString
# #create a new document
# scoreXML = parseString(u'<region/>'.encode('UTF-8'))
# art = scoreXML.documentElement
#
# #create a total population, cities and some city elements
# population = scoreXML.createElementNS(None,u'population')
# cities = scoreXML.createElementNS(None,u'cities')
# city1 = scoreXML.createElementNS(None,u'city1')
# city2 = scoreXML.createElementNS(None,u'city2')
# city3 = scoreXML.createElementNS(None,u'city3 and so on')
#
# #add it under the region element
# art.appendChild(population)
# art.appendChild(cities)
#
# # create a total element with a population number inside
# # and do this for all RCI numbers
# population.appendChild(scoreXML.createElementNS(No ne,u'total'))
# total = scoreXML.createTextNode(u'0')
# population.firstChild.appendChild(total)
# #will get RCI with seperate function
# RCI = [scoreXML.createTextNode(u'0'),
# scoreXML.createTextNode(u'0'),
# scoreXML.createTextNode(u'0')] #[r,c,i]
# for populationElement in [u'R',u'C',u'I']:
#
population.appendChild(scoreXML.createElementNS(No ne,populationElement))
# population.lastChild.appendChild(RCI[0])
# RCI.pop(0)
#
# #add the elements underneath city
# allcities = [city1,city2,city3]
# for city in allcities:
# cities.appendChild(city)
#
# for cityattribute in [u'cityname',u'mayor',u'morelater']:
# city.appendChild(scoreXML.createElementNS(None,cit yattribute))
#
# citypopulation = scoreXML.createElementNS(None,u'citypopulation')
# city.appendChild(citypopulation)
# #will get RCI with seperate function
# RCI = [scoreXML.createTextNode(u'0'),
# scoreXML.createTextNode(u'0'),
# scoreXML.createTextNode(u'0')] #[r,c,i]
#
# for populationElement in [u'R',u'C',u'I']:
#>>>>>>>>>>citypopulation.appendChild(scoreXML.cre ateElementNS(None,populationElement))
# citypopulation.lastChild.appendChild(RCI[0])
# RCI.pop(0)
# #write the result
# print scoreXML.toprettyxml()
Any ideas?
-thanks in advance
