November 2017
Beginner to intermediate
204 pages
5h 23m
English
XML and JSON can both be used for representing hierarchical data; however, JSON has become increasingly popular as a means of storing and distributing data. A big reason for this is that JSON is more compatible with JavaScript, a programming language critical for web development. That said, a number of current and legacy data sources are available only in XML, so it can be useful to know how to work with XML.
In the following section, I will do a brief introduction of the Python xml.etree.ElementTree module which can be used to process XML data.
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