For simple parsing, you can also use the built-in TAG() helper -- see http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/5#Parsing.
FYI, in your example, some of the closing tags do not match their associated opening tags. Anthony On Thursday, August 23, 2012 5:53:32 AM UTC-4, Amit wrote: > > Hi, > I have web service method in my application which will receive xml file > from the request, i need to parse it and save the extracted data to the > database. Please suggest me the best way to parse xml in web2py. > > xml format would be like below: > > <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> > <macaddress value="00:00:00:00:00:00" > > <devicetype value="abc"> > <deviceserialno>123456</sensorserialno> > <mfgdate>2012-06-30</mngdate> > <mfgsiteid>1</mngsiteid> > <secretkey>adadafdfdgfgfhggjghjjj</secretkey> > </sensortype> > </macaddress> > --
