On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Venkatraman S <venka...@gmail.com> wrote: > parsing using minidom is one of the slowest. if you just want to extract the > distance and assuming that it(the tag) will always be consistent, then i > would always suggest regexp. xml parsing is a pain. [...]
Strongly disagree. IMHO, regexps are the wrong solution for parsing XML (or, any kind of well-structured text), as they end up becoming intolerably complex, and do not degrade gracefully for broken XML. Have not compared speeds myself, but there are blogs that go into that. In my experience, the cleanest, most efficient, and richest-in-features Python XML library is lxml. For people used to BeautifulSoup, lxml has a BeautifulSoup parser, and is significantly more efficient. Regards, Gora _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
