XML::Twig-like module wanted

[Fredrik Lundh]

Henrik Motakef wrote:

> Does anybody know about something similar to XML::Twig (see
> <http://www.xmltwig.com>) for Python?

from your description, it sounds like the "pulldom" standard
module is what you want:

from xml.dom import pulldom

source = pulldom.parse("somefile.xml")

for event, node in source:
    # node is now a dom node without child elements
    if event == "START_ELEMENT" and node.tagName == "record":
        # make sure we have all child elements
        source.expandNode(node)
        process(node)

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