Printing XML into HTML with python

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I have a TextEdit widget in PyQt that I use to print out a log in HTML. I use HTML so I can separate entries into color categories (red for error, yellow for debug, blue for message, etc), but this creates a problem. Most of the debug messages are XML. When I use appendHtml on the widget, it strips out all the tags.

How can I pretty print XML in an HTML document?

nosklo · Accepted Answer · 2009-04-30 19:18:04Z

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cgi.escape can help you. It will convert the characters '&', '<' and '>' in the string to HTML-safe sequences. That is enough to prevent interpretation of xml tags.

>>> cgi.escape('<tag>')
'&lt;tag&gt;

answered Apr 30, 2009 at 19:18

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S.Lott · Accepted Answer · 2009-04-30 19:12:48Z

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A cdata section might help.

http://reference.sitepoint.com/javascript/CDATASection

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDATA

answered Apr 30, 2009 at 19:12

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