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71 lines
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\section{\module{xml.sax.saxutils} ---
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SAX Utilities}
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\declaremodule{standard}{xml.sax.saxutils}
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\modulesynopsis{Convenience functions and classes for use with SAX.}
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\sectionauthor{Martin v. L\"owis}{loewis@informatik.hu-berlin.de}
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\moduleauthor{Lars Marius Garshol}{larsga@garshol.priv.no}
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\versionadded{2.0}
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The module \module{xml.sax.saxutils} contains a number of classes and
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functions that are commonly useful when creating SAX applications,
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either in direct use, or as base classes.
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\begin{funcdesc}{escape}{data\optional{, entities}}
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Escape \character{\&}, \character{<}, and \character{>} in a string
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of data.
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You can escape other strings of data by passing a dictionary as the
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optional \var{entities} parameter. The keys and values must all be
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strings; each key will be replaced with its corresponding value.
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\end{funcdesc}
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\begin{funcdesc}{quoteattr}{data\optional{, entities}}
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Similar to \function{escape()}, but also prepares \var{data} to be
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used as an attribute value. The return value is a quoted version of
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\var{data} with any additional required replacements.
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\function{quoteattr()} will select a quote character based on the
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content of \var{data}, attempting to avoid encoding any quote
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characters in the string. If both single- and double-quote
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characters are already in \var{data}, the double-quote characters
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will be encoded and \var{data} will be wrapped in doule-quotes. The
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resulting string can be used directly as an attribute value:
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\begin{verbatim}
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>>> print "<element attr=%s>" % quoteattr("ab ' cd \" ef")
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<element attr="ab ' cd " ef">
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\end{verbatim}
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This function is useful when generating attribute values for HTML or
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any SGML using the reference concrete syntax.
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\versionadded{2.2}
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\end{funcdesc}
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\begin{classdesc}{XMLGenerator}{\optional{out\optional{, encoding}}}
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This class implements the \class{ContentHandler} interface by
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writing SAX events back into an XML document. In other words, using
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an \class{XMLGenerator} as the content handler will reproduce the
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original document being parsed. \var{out} should be a file-like
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object which will default to \var{sys.stdout}. \var{encoding} is the
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encoding of the output stream which defaults to \code{'iso-8859-1'}.
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\end{classdesc}
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\begin{classdesc}{XMLFilterBase}{base}
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This class is designed to sit between an \class{XMLReader} and the
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client application's event handlers. By default, it does nothing
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but pass requests up to the reader and events on to the handlers
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unmodified, but subclasses can override specific methods to modify
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the event stream or the configuration requests as they pass through.
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\end{classdesc}
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\begin{funcdesc}{prepare_input_source}{source\optional{, base}}
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This function takes an input source and an optional base URL and
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returns a fully resolved \class{InputSource} object ready for
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reading. The input source can be given as a string, a file-like
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object, or an \class{InputSource} object; parsers will use this
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function to implement the polymorphic \var{source} argument to their
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\method{parse()} method.
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\end{funcdesc}
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