Replacing an XML element?

[Nick Vargish]

I've been trying to figure out how to do something that seems
relatively simple, but it's just not coming together for me. I'm
hoping someone will deign to give me a little insight here.

The problem: We have XML documents that use a custom table format that
was designed primarily for typesetting documents. It's a column-first
oriented scheme, and now we need a way to convert these table elements
to HTML style row-first tables.

I would like to be able to do something like this:

doc = xml.dom.minidom .parse(input)
for table in doc.getElements ByTagName('COLT ABLE'):
newtable = coltable_to_row table(table)
## this is what I can't figure out
doc.replace(tab le, newtable)
output.write(do c.toxml('utf-8'))

I'm pretty sure I'm missing something obvious, but haven't been able
to find any examples.

Someone please whack me with a cluestick,

Nick

--
#include<stdio. h> /* sigmask (sig.c) 20041028 PUBLIC DOMAIN */
int main(c,v)char *v;{return !c?putchar(* /* cc -o sig sig.c */
v-1)&&main(0,v+1) :main(0,"Ojdl!W bshjti!=ojdlAwb shjti/psh?\v\1");}

[Max Erickson]

Re: Replacing an XML element?

Nick Vargish <nav+posts@band ersnatch.org> wrote in
news:87wtlbdfo4 .fsf@localhost. localdomain:
[color=blue]
> I've been trying to figure out how to do something that seems
> relatively simple, but it's just not coming together for me. I'm
> hoping someone will deign to give me a little insight here.
>
> The problem: We have XML documents that use a custom table format
> that was designed primarily for typesetting documents. It's a
> column-first oriented scheme, and now we need a way to convert
> these table elements to HTML style row-first tables.
>
> I would like to be able to do something like this:
>
> doc = xml.dom.minidom .parse(input)
> for table in doc.getElements ByTagName('COLT ABLE'):
> newtable = coltable_to_row table(table)
> ## this is what I can't figure out
> doc.replace(tab le, newtable)
> output.write(do c.toxml('utf-8'))
>
> I'm pretty sure I'm missing something obvious, but haven't been
> able to find any examples.
>
> Someone please whack me with a cluestick,
>
> Nick
>[/color]

table.parentNod e.replaceChild( newtable, table)

[Nick Vargish]

Re: Replacing an XML element?

Max Erickson <maxerickson@gm ail.com> writes:
[color=blue]
> table.parentNod e.replaceChild( newtable, table)[/color]

I knew it had to be something simple (but not as simple as I am,
apparently :^).

Thanks much, Max, you've saved the rest of my day.

Nick

--
#include<stdio. h> /* sigmask (sig.c) 20041028 PUBLIC DOMAIN */
int main(c,v)char *v;{return !c?putchar(* /* cc -o sig sig.c */
v-1)&&main(0,v+1) :main(0,"Ojdl!W bshjti!=ojdlAwb shjti/psh?\v\1");}