looking for a simple XML api for python

[Max Khesin]

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"Istvan Albert" <ialbert at mailblocks.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking for a simple XML api for python. Searched high
> and low could not find one, I was wondering if one could
> point me to the right direction.
>
> I'm not talking about DOM and SAX, I have plenty of
> experience with both and I found them quite unwieldly.
> With these I need to do a whole lot of work just
> to read a single attribute.
>
> And I don't mean just parsing either, I saw the
> pyRXP does that pretty well, only that it
> does not offer a modifiable document model.
>
> I'm looking for a simple, lightweigth API developed for python,
> similar to what dom4j (and JDOM) is for java. An API
> that allows me to use simple python constructs, iterators and
> collections with XPath to access and change the document's
> content.
>
> http://www.dom4j.org/index.html
>
> Where should I be looking?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Istvan.
>