Use a library to generate and manipulate XML documents

[aglitke]

While it seems like less code to use template strings to produce XML documents for libvirt, this approach can be error prone and may lead to security problems if escaping is not handled properly. We should adopt a library such as libxml2 or xml.etree for managing this in most cases.

[ramonmedeiros]

Hi Adam,

it seems that you want a class to compose the xml for libvirt. How you want this feature:

1 - Pass a dictionary in python with the information and generate a libvirt xml as output?
2 - Create a class, with functions like setOS, setArch to create the xml

[shaohef]

aglitke: we looked at using libvirt-gobject to help us manipulate xml files. The problem is this is not available on rhel5
It's a wrapper library for libvirt using gobject introspection to provide the python bindings.

@aglitke do we still consider libvirt-gobject?

[aglitke]

On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 08:38:31AM -0700, shaohef wrote:

aglitke: we looked at using libvirt-gobject to help us manipulate xml files. The problem is this is not available on rhel5
It's a wrapper library for libvirt using gobject introspection to provide the python bindings.

@aglitke do we still consider libvirt-gobject?

No. I think we should use libxml2.

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