> Message: 5 > Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 10:56:22 +0100 > From: Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> > Subject: Re: [Tutor] Parse XML file > To: tutor@python.org > Message-ID: <gpijc7$6u...@ger.gmane.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Lukas Agrapidis wrote: >> I am trying to parse an XML file using Python and found this resource http://diveintopython.org/xml_processing/parsing_xml.html > > You might be interested in ElementTree: > > http://effbot.org/zone/element.htm > > It's a lot easier to use than minidom, especially for new users. It's available in the standard library as "xml.etree.ElementTree" module since > Python 2.5. >
I would agree - I was struggling with minidom, Stefan recommended ElementTree and another person (deleted the email and can't recall his name) recommended lxml. I was able to get a working understanding of these libraries in less than an hour and solve the problems I had encountered with minidom in a very short time. (BTW, parsing xml was probably a poor choice for my first project while learning Python, but then again, nobody has ever accused me of making my life easy) Marc _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
