Message: 5
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 10:56:22 +0100
From: Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de>
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Parse XML file
To: tutor at python.org
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Lukas Agrapidis wrote:
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 10:56:22 +0100
From: Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de>
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Parse XML file
To: tutor at python.org
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Lukas Agrapidis wrote:
I am trying to parse an XML file using Python and found this resource
You might be interested in ElementTree:
http://effbot.org/zone/element.htm
It's a lot easier to use than minidom, especially for new users. It's
available in the standard library as "xml.etree.ElementTree" modulehttp://effbot.org/zone/element.htm
It's a lot easier to use than minidom, especially for new users. It's
since
Python 2.5.
I would agree - I was struggling with minidom, Stefan recommendedElementTree and another person (deleted the email and can't recall his
name) recommended lxml. I was able to get a working understanding of
these libraries in less than an hour and solve the problems I had
encountered with minidom in a very short time. (BTW, parsing xml was
probably a poor choice for my first project while learning Python, but
then again, nobody has ever accused me of making my life easy)
Marc
