• From: Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@g...>
• To: Oleg Parashchenko <olpa@u...>
• Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 04:47:29 -0700

> rx = xml_re.compile('''(h1, (not h1)*)''')
> rx.sub('''<section>\0</section>''', xml_doc)


Why would anybody sacrifice the readability, maintainability and
polymorphism/extensibility of XSLT templates for something as ugly,
unreadable and error-prone as this?

Cheers,
Dimitre.

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 1:52 AM, Oleg Parashchenko <olpa@u...> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> are there libraries to work with XML structure using regular expressions?
>
> Something like this, in pseudocode:
>
> rx = xml_re.compile('''(h1, (not h1)*)''')
> rx.sub('''<section>\0</section>''', xml_doc)
>
> If the content of xml_doc was
>
> <x>
> <h1>Heading 1</h1>
> <p>text 1</p>
> <p>text 2</p>
> <h1>Heading 2</h1>
> <p>text 3</p>
> </x>
>
> then the substitution should result in:
>
> <x>
> <section>
>  <h1>Heading 1</h1>
>  <p>text 1</p>
>  <p>text 2</p>
> </section>
> <section>
>  <h1>Heading 2</h1>
>  <p>text 3</p>
> </section>
> </x>
>
> Any hints are welcome!
>
>
>
> --
> Oleg Parashchenko  olpa@ http://uucode.com/
> http://uucode.com/blog/  XML, TeX, Python, Mac, Chess
>
>
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Dimitre Novatchev
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