Questions about parsing XML

[Jarek Zgoda]

Kyle Root <kyleroot at gmail.com> pisze:

> I'm writing a practice program that parses an xml config file, at the 
> moment I'm using expat.  However I don't like some of it's behaviors. 
> For example ParseFile() will parse the *entire* file and I don't want to 
> do that.  I would like to be able to tell it to find such and such a tag 
> and return the cdata it contains, is this at all possible?  If it is how 
> would I handle optional tags?

libxml2 (http://www.xmlsoft.org/) has excellent support for XPath, F.
Lundh's ElementTree also supports some XPath expressions, although it is
built on expat and needs to parse whole XML document.

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Jarek Zgoda
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