XML documentation stinks - help?

[Robert Kern]

Simon John wrote:

> I'm sure this must be a PEP, but could someone look at the PyXML
> documentation?
> 
> I'm trying to evaluate XML on Python (to eventually use it with
> XML-RPC) as apposed to Perl.
> 
> The problem is, I can't find a simple demo or documentation that just
> says how to create a parser object, and call the start/char/end event
> handlers.
> 
> With Perl's XML::Parser, it's that simple, you overload a
> start/char/end handler that gets called for every element, then you
> just create a hash of the data or whatever you want.
> 
> Most of the sites I Googled don't even exist anymore or have either
> incomplete documentation, out-of-date documentation, or have way
> over-complex examples that don't even explain why their importing
> modules or what they're doing.

Did the Python/XML HOWTO not meet your needs?

http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/topics/howto/xml-howto.html

Note Chapter 5 on the SAX API, which looks like what you describe. It 
seems to be fairly straightforward to me.

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