> For the described problem, maybe. But certainly not for the application. > The background was parsing the XML dump of an entire web site, which I > would expect to be larger than what minidom is designed to handle > gracefully. Switching to cElementTree before major code gets written is > almost certainly a good idea here.
I think minidom is designed to handle the very same documents taht cElementTree is designed to handle (namely, documents that fit into memory). Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list