From c73ab617c0d090ab29d3ef9a940abe435cbcb51b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ptmcg Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 18:18:03 +0000 Subject: Deprecated ParseResults.asXML git-svn-id: svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/pyparsing/code/trunk@386 9bf210a0-9d2d-494c-87cf-cfb32e7dff7b --- src/CHANGES | 12 ++++++++++++ src/pyparsing.py | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'src') diff --git a/src/CHANGES b/src/CHANGES index 877114f..823ad88 100644 --- a/src/CHANGES +++ b/src/CHANGES @@ -22,6 +22,18 @@ Version 2.1.6 - while the generic "number" is similar to the flexible number syntax in other languages. +- Deprecated ParseResults.asXML. I've never been too happy with this + method, and it usually forces some unnatural code in the parsers in + order to get decent tag names. The amount of guesswork that asXML + has to do to try to match names with values should have been a red + flag from day one. If you are using asXML, you will need to implement + your own ParseResults->XML serialization. Or consider migrating to + a more current format such as JSON (which is very easy to do: + results_as_json = json.dumps(parse_result.asDict()) Hopefully, when + I remove this code in a future version, I'll also be able to simplify + some of the craziness in ParseResults, which IIRC was only there to try + to make asXML work. + - Updated traceParseAction parse action decorator to show the repr of the input and output tokens, instead of the str format, since str has been simplified to just show the token list content. diff --git a/src/pyparsing.py b/src/pyparsing.py index 9f637c6..0f658b0 100644 --- a/src/pyparsing.py +++ b/src/pyparsing.py @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ The pyparsing module handles some of the problems that are typically vexing when """ __version__ = "2.1.6" -__versionTime__ = "05 Aug 2016 18:01 UTC" +__versionTime__ = "05 Aug 2016 18:11 UTC" __author__ = "Paul McGuire " import string @@ -592,7 +592,7 @@ class ParseResults(object): return ret def asXML( self, doctag=None, namedItemsOnly=False, indent="", formatted=True ): - """Returns the parse results as XML. Tags are created for tokens and lists that have defined results names.""" + """(Deprecated) Returns the parse results as XML. Tags are created for tokens and lists that have defined results names.""" nl = "\n" out = [] namedItems = dict((v[1],k) for (k,vlist) in self.__tokdict.items() -- cgit v1.2.1