Re: xml parsing for weblogs.com xml file

Stefan Behnel <[email protected]> Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:49:13 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.xml
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Fabian López wrote:
> I am quite new in Python and I have been looking for a library to parse a
> xml document.

There are currently two options I'd recommend: lxml and ElementTree. Both are
mostly compatible, but much easier to use than SAX.

http://codespeak.net/lxml


> I know that maybe the best solution for what I am programming
> is to use SAX,

No. SAX is always a problem, rarely a solution and almost never the best solution.


> The problem is that weblog tag doesn't finish with </weblog> and I don't
> really know if this library will work. I only want to take the attributes of
> weblog tag. Can anyone tell me if SAX can do it or if I need some special
> and better library?

Both.

Stefan

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