Hi, David Shi wrote: > Looking for a generic efficient script for reading xml containing CDATA, > extracting data for ready to be stored in a .dbf file
My guess is that your best bet is to do the conversion yourself in order to get the mapping right. Asking Google for "python .dbf file" gives a couple of hits, including this one: http://dbfpy.sourceforge.net/ Parsing the XML step-by-step to do the mapping on the fly should be easy using iterparse() in ElementTree or lxml. Not sure about ElementTree, but at least lxml handles CDATA sections nicely and gives you the plain text. Stefan _______________________________________________ XML-SIG maillist - XML-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/xml-sig