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What is the best way to parse Visual Studio .csproj file using python, for further modification?
It is some .csproj file:
...
<ItemGroup>
<Reference Include="SomeAssembly, Version=1.1.1.1"/>
...
</ItemGroup>
...
I want to insert this:
<HintPath>path/to/SomeAassembly.dll</HintPath>
into the <Reference/> node.
VS project files are XML. Python comes with a number of XML parsing libraries: http://docs.python.org/library/markup.html
Either of
xml.parsers.expatorxml.minidomcould accomplish what you describe. For processing small XML documents like VS project files, choosing among them is a matter of taste. The example code in the documentation for each should help you decide.An elegant alternative, especially if you have many such transformations to apply, would be to use a filter object with the xml.sax API.