Chapter 9. Processing XML
Python includes several modules that provide most of the tools necessary to parse and process XML documents. Parsing XML files is becoming much more critical as applications adopt the XML standard as the best way to transfer data between applications and systems.
Because there is no way to cover the extent of options Python provides in XML processing, I’ve chosen to present phrases that demonstrate some common tasks. To provide as broad of coverage as possible, these phrases will use the xml.dom, xml.sax, and xml.parsers.expat modules.
The phrases in this chapter cover concepts of basic XML processing such as loading, navigating, and checking for well-formed documents. They also cover more advanced XML processing such as ...
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