Python has an interface to the expat XML parser. xml.parsers.expat It's a non-validating parser, so bad XML will not be caught. But if you know your file is correct, then this is pretty good, and you'll …

Try to use xml.etree.ElementTree which is implemented 100% in C and which can parse XML without any callbacks to python code. After the document has been parsed, you can filter it to get what you …

Nov 24, 2009 · I'm having a hard time finding a good, basic example of how to parse XML in python using Element Tree. From what I can find, this appears to be the easiest library to use for parsing XML.

Another option is using xml.sax. The official manual is too formal to me, and lacks examples so it needs clarification along with the question. Default parser module, xml.sax.expatreader, implement …

Mar 15, 2009 · The ElementTree.parse reads from a file, how can I use this if I already have the XML data in a string? Maybe I am missing something here, but there must be a way to use the …

47 I need to load an XML file and convert the contents into an object-oriented Python structure. I want to take this:

Nov 8, 2014 · 8 A search for "python" and "xml" returns a variety of libraries for combining the two. This list probably faulty: xml.dom xml.etree xml.sax xml.parsers.expat PyXML beautifulsoup? …

47 Note: This is an answer useful for Python's ElementTree standard library without using hardcoded namespaces. To extract namespace's prefixes and URI from XML data you can use …

Oct 24, 2012 · 7 See this answer to another question and the according part of the XML spec. The backspace U+0008 is an invalid character in XML documents. It must be represented as escaped …

Python has several ways to parse XML... I understand the very basics of parsing with SAX. It functions as a stream parser, with an event-driven API. I understand the DOM parser also. It reads t...