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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

I need to write a parser in Python that can process some extremely large files ( > 2 GB ) on a computer without much memory (only 2 GB). I wanted to use iterparse in lxml to do it. My file …