inder wrote: > I am new to xml . I need to parse the xml file . After reading and > browsing on the web , I could get much help . > > I guess SAX would be better suited for my requirement .
That's a common misconception. > Could some juct provide me a sample python code so that I can execute > it and see how the parsing actually happens . > > Lets say my xml file - > <?xml version="1.0"?> > <library> > <category code="SciFi" room="1"> <!--if you want to test invalid > document against schema you can just cut the mandatory id attribute -- > <book id="ISBN001"> > <title>I,Robot</title> > <pages>100</pages> > <author>Isaac Asimov</author> > </book> > <book id="ISBN001" damaged="true"> > <title>Blade Runner</title> > <pages>400</pages> > <author>Philip K. Dick</author> > </book> > </category> > <category code="Boring" room="2"> > <book id="ISBN003"> > <title>Lord Of The Rings</title> > <pages>20000</pages> > <author>Tolkien</author> > </book> > <book id="ISBN004" damaged="true"> > <title>XML-Schema Specification</title> > <pages>5000</pages> > <author>W3C</author> > </book> > </category> > <category code="Fantasy"> > <book id="ISBN005" damaged="true"> > <title>Aladin</title> > <pages>150</pages> > <author>Don't know</author> > </book> > </category> > </library> > > > -------------------------- > > I need the output to be - (elements containing 'title' ) > > I,Robot > Blade Runner > Lord Of The Rings > XML-Schema Specification > Aladin Use the iterparse() function of the xml.etree.ElementTree package. http://effbot.org/zone/element-iterparse.htm http://codespeak.net/lxml/parsing.html#iterparse-and-iterwalk Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
