Reading and writing XML files with Python
XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language. Although not as popular to store data as the formats described previously, certain web APIs return XML-encoded information on request.
An XML-encoded document has a tree-like structure. To read the contents, we start at the root of the tree (normally, the name of the element that follows the XML declaration <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>; every XML-encoded document needs to begin with such declaration). In our case, the root of our XML-encoded document is <records>. A single <record>...</record> contains a list of <var var_name=...>...</var>.
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Warning: The xml module is not secure. Caution is required when dealing with XML-encoded messages from untrusted ...
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