To elaborate:
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from xml.dom.pulldom import START_ELEMENT, parse
import io
sampleData = u"""<?xml version="1.0"?>
<data>
<country name="Liechtenstein">
<rank updated="yes">2</rank>
<year>2008</year>
<gdppc>141100</gdppc>
<neighbor name="Austria" direction="E"/>
<neighbor name="Switzerland" direction="W"/>
</country>
<country name="Singapore">
<rank updated="yes">5</rank>
<year>2011</year>
<gdppc>59900</gdppc>
<neighbor name="Malaysia" direction="N"/>
</country>
<country name="Panama">
<rank updated="yes">69</rank>
<year>2011</year>
<gdppc>13600</gdppc>
<neighbor name="Costa Rica" direction="W"/>
<neighbor name="Colombia" direction="E"/>
</country>
</data>
"""
doc = parse(io.StringIO(sampleData))
for event, node in doc:
if event == START_ELEMENT and node.localName == "country":
doc.expandNode(node)
print("--------------")
print("This is the node for " + node.getAttribute('name'))
print("--------------")
print(node.toxml())
print("\n\n")
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We can decide and make control-flow decisions in a stream-like manner.
Note that we can even look at attributes, before printing the node
back wherever we want.
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