Overview

xmlpolymerase is a simple powerful serializer and deserializer for python-structures into XML. Possible structures are string, int, float, bool, list and dict.

The primary function of a polymerase is the polymerization of new DNA or RNA against an existing DNA or RNA template in the processes of replication and transcription. (Cite: Wikipeadia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase)

Usage

This is a pure python module. The API is pretty simple, for more read the docstrings, an exampkle follows:

>>> from odict import OrderedDict
>>> teststructure = OrderedDict()
>>> teststructure['one'] = 'Eins'
>>> teststructure['two'] = 'Zwei'
>>> teststructure['three'] = 'Drei'
>>> teststructure['four'] = [True, 2, '3-2', 42.23]
>>> domnode = serialize(structure, nodename='object')
>>> print domnode.toprettyxml()
<object>
    <one>
            Eins
    </one>
    <two>
            Zwei
    </two>
    <three>
            Drei
    </three>
    <four type="list">
            <entry type="bool">
                    True
            </entry>
            <entry type="int">
                    2
            </entry>
            <entry>
                    3-2
            </entry>
            <entry type="float">
                    42.23
            </entry>
    </four>
</object>
<BLANKLINE>

>>> structure = deserialze(domnode)
OrderedDict([('one', 'Eins'), ('two', 'Zwei'), ('three', 'Drei'), ('four', [True, 2, '3-2', 23.42])])

Thanks

to Nicola Larosa and Michael Foord for the OrderedDict implementation, which is used and copied (unmodified) into this package in odict.py here. The code was published under a BSD-License. For details please read the contents of the file.

License

All code except odict.py is under the GNU General Public License GPL 2.0 or later.

Copyright and Authors

Copyright, BlueDynamics Alliance, Austria

author: Jens Klein <jens@bluedynamics.com>

Feedback, Bugreports, ...

If you like to give the author feedback about this product just write a mail to <dev@bluedynamics.com>.

If you have access to the plone.org collective you might want to commit bug-fixes direct to trunk or do enhancements on a branch. Anyway, the author would be happy to get a short mail about those changes.

-- Jens Klein <jens@bluedynamics.com>