XML examples needed

[Laura Lewin]

Hi,
If you can wait a few months, we'll have a book entitled, Python &
XML.  It's under tech review at the moment.  Hope you'll have a book
budget by then. :-)
Laura
LLewin at oreilly.com

xyzmats at laplaza.org (Mats Wichmann) wrote in message news:<3b1aa296.13311941 at news.laplaza.org>...
> Sigh. Sometimes all this stuff makes me feel really stupid.
> 
> I'm trying to figure out some really basic usage of XML in Python.  I
> have a document that I'd like to structure as XML and use Python to
> generate an output file from it: the XML is for maintainability of the
> "raw data", but it needs to be turned into something much more complex
> eventually (a web page with embedded javascript).
> 
> Problem is, the whole world seems to think you're going to use Java
> for this sort of stuff.
> 
> The Python XML docs (standard distro and PyXML) don't really have any
> basic examples, and I'm not grokking.
> 
> Books...there's McGrath's XML Processing with Python, but besides my
> not having any book budget at the moment, the book seems to have come
> in for quite a bit of criticism so I'm pretty doubful in any case.
> 
> So where to go?  Are there any useful low-level tutorials of the
> "getting started" variety out there on the web that talk specifically
> about Python usage?
> 
> Mats
> 
> Mats Wichmann
> 
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