[mod_python] mod_python and xml parsing

Wed Jun 23 17:42:33 EDT 2004

I was wondering if anyone could help me figure out how to do some xml 
parsing with mod_python.  The code I have is:

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from mod_python import apache
import xml.dom.minidom
import urllib

def crazy(req, url):
    sock = urllib.urlopen( url )
    indata = sock.read()
    sock.close()
    dom = parse(indata)
    return "<html>PASS</html>"

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The output that I get when I try to run the script in my browser is:

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Mod_python error: "PythonHandler mod_python.publisher"

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/mod_python/apache.py", line 193, 
in Dispatch
result = object(req)

File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/mod_python/publisher.py", line 
171, in handler
result = apply(object, (), args)

File "/web/htdocs/python/rose.py", line 9, in crazy

File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/minidom.py", line 
1908, in parse
return expatbuilder.parse(file)

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'parse'

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Can anyone help me figure out what I am doing wrong? I have tried 
tweaking the code a little bit but with no luck.  Is there some 
documentation out there that I can read about mod_python and parsing XML?

-- Dan Olsen