Re: [xml] Copying XML subtrees across documents (in Python)

[Jos Vos <jos xos nl>]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 11:48:53AM +0200, Stefan Behnel wrote:

> ;) the recommended way to use libxml2 from Python is lxml.

Thanks, but if anyhow possible, I'd like to stick to something
that is available from stock RHEL5 and python-lxml isn't included
there.

> Ok, you want to copy, not move the node, so lxml.etree would do:
>
>    >>> from copy import deepcopy
>    >>> x.append(deepcopy(y))
>
> Short and intuitive.

Yes it is, I will certainly consider migrating to lxml.

But isn't there a method that works without lxml?  Now porting my
stuff to lxml is quite some work...

Thanks anyway,

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