XML Processing with Python

10.8. A SAX Inspection Application

In this section, we develop a useful application that converts a sequence of SAX events into an XML document. This application is a useful debugging tool because it allows you to see at a glance the precise sequence of events generated by any SAX-compliant parser.

Given an XML document like this

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<Greeting x = "y">Hello World</Greeting>

the application generates this:

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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE SAXShow SYSTEM "SAXShow.dtd">
<SAXShow>
<Document>
<Element name="Greeting">
<Attribute name = "x" type = "CDATA" value="y"/>
<chars>Hello World</chars>
</Element>
</Document>
</SAXShow>

We will start with the DTD for the event sequence.

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