Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: minidom-ext
Version: 0.0.4
Summary: Minidom extension
Home-page: https://github.com/edesmontils/Minidom_ext
Author: Emmanuel Desmontils
Author-email: emmanuel.desmontils@univ-nantes.fr
Maintainer: Emmanuel Desmontils
Maintainer-email:  emmanuel.desmontils@univ-nantes.fr
License: GPL V3
Description: # 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)
        
        ## Exemple
        
        ```
        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
        
Keywords: minidom XML DOM
Platform: ALL
Classifier: Topic :: Education
Classifier: Topic :: Documentation
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