Possible to write XML reading code that will run on Python and IronPython?

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I am writing code to parse XML (actually, KML) files and load them to a database. I would like to run the code under either Python or IronPython.

Unfortunately, I find that xml.dom.minidom will not load under IronPython because it has a dependency on expat.py, which is not implemented on IronPython. I also tried using try / except blocks to get an XML document object from either platform. Although I can obtain a document gracefully running under either platform the internal implementations of the documents are too different to write code that runs under either platform.

Is there an XML parsing strategy that is compatible across Python and IronPython?

ChristopheD · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-11 15:41:38Z

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According to this webpage, you may be able to get xml.dom.minidom running (if the only missing part is expat.py):

"Download FePy's pyexpat.py, copy it to IronPython's Lib/xml/parsers subdirectory, and rename it to expat.py."

Related: http://ironpython.codeplex.com/workitem/20023

answered May 11, 2012 at 15:41

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Larry Lustig Over a year ago

Thanks! One step missing on that web page — you must also copy (from the standard Python library) xml.dom.expatbuilder.py. With those two changes made, my code runs on both platforms!

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