Python and XML Schema

[Trond]

I have a need to, given a XML document with XML Schema defined, to get the
type of each element in the XML file based on the XML Schema URI given. IE,
the <title> element is of simple datatype string. Is there any existing
Python libraries were I can parse the XML file, and for a given node ask for
the datatype (which should be taken from XML Schema?)

Trond

[Dennis Benzinger]

Re: Python and XML Schema

Trond wrote:[color=blue]
> I have a need to, given a XML document with XML Schema defined, to get the
> type of each element in the XML file based on the XML Schema URI given. IE,
> the <title> element is of simple datatype string. Is there any existing
> Python libraries were I can parse the XML file, and for a given node ask for
> the datatype (which should be taken from XML Schema?)
> [...][/color]

Take a look at lxml. It's a pythonic binding for libxml2 and libxslt.
libxml2 <http://xmlsoft.org/> implements XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes
and partially XML Schema Part 1: Structures.
I don't know how complete the structures implementation is and if it can
already do what you want. So you might ask the libxml2 guys how to do
what you want with libxml2 and then use lxml to do it in Python.

Bye,
Dennis