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From: Stefan Behnel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Aug 10, 2007 1:23 PM
Subject: Re: [XML-SIG] Parse MULTIPLE XML files in a directory
To: amitesh kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: xml-sig@python.org
Hi,
first thing: don't use expat directly. Use (c)ElementTree's iterparse. It's
in
Python 2.5, but is also available as an external package for older Python
versions. There's also lxml (which is mostly compatible to ElementTree), in
case you ever need features like XPath, XSLT or whatever.
amitesh kumar wrote:
> Please review the following code and help me.
>
> Here I'm trying to :
> 1. Read each XML file in a folder.
> 2. Parse file.
> 3. Store some of the tags values as key-value pair in a map
> 4. Similarly maintain another collection that'll store one list per file.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> ordtags = set()
> shptags = set()
> omptags = set()
>
> ordtags.add('orrfnbr')
> ordtags.add('afidlog')
[...]
Better:
ordtags = set(['offfnbr', 'afidlog', ...])
from xml.etree.cElementTree import iterparse
for onefile in allfiles:
for event, element in iterparse(onefile):
if element.tag in ordtags:
# do something like
values[element.tag] = element.text
elif element.tag in shptags:
# do something else
else:
# don't do anything?
element.clear()
Stefan
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With Regards
Amitesh K.
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