[BioPython] Blast XML parser

[Michiel de Hoon]

Thanks, Christof.

Christof Winter wrote:
> The result looks fine, however, it seems that query IDs and definitions 
> are not parsed. This is probably because of NCBI's change of tag names from
 > ...
You're right. I've fixed this in an updated patch (at bug #1970 on 
Bugzilla).

> Concerning the new syntax, I would prefer a unified syntax for parsing 
> of both XML formats, and I would like to vote for Peter's "nice idea" in 
> his comment #6 in http://bugzilla.open-bio.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1970). 
> Running the same code on different machines with different local BLAST 
> versions constantly gives me a headache when parsing the results. As 
> long as these different BLAST versions are out there, people will run 
> into problems, and fill the BioPython discussion lists.

I'm not sure if I understand correctly. Are you saying that we should 
have one function to handle both old- and new-style XML output? Or are 
you referring to how the functions should be named?

--Michiel.