a few more questions on XML and python

[Rajarshi Guha]

Hi,
  thanks for the nice pointers regrding XML and python. I have another 
newbie question - I'm trying to get information out of a CML (Chemical 
Markup Language) file which is a subset of XML. My query is that using 
xml.parsers.expat I can get a loist of tags and values etc. I

How can I  indicate to the parser that if say it comes upon a tag like 
<coordinate> it should call a certain handler to process the coordinate 
data.

Or am I supposed to just do the handling by extractin the information 
provided by expat. If so is there any type of 'hook' system where I can 
plug in my handlers.

I'm a little confused as to how expat is supposed to handle an arbitrary 
XML file where the tags could be describing anything.

As you can see I'm pretty confused :(

TIA

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