Questions about parsing XML

Kyle Root kyleroot at gmail.com
Sat Aug 7 10:28:39 EDT 2004


Jarek Zgoda wrote:
> 
> Python's xmllib (regular expression based parser) is not the same
> software as libxml2 (GNOME XML library) ;).
> 
> If you need full support for XPath, XPointer, XInclude or namespaces
> (see http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/06/30/py-xml.html) I recommend using
> libxml2. Some people say that some of its parsers are also faster than
> original J. Clark's expat (although not as easy to use as expat or
> expat-like SAX parser from libxml2).
> 

Okay thank you very much!
I like libxml2's docs better than the Python Library Reference anyways. :D



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