XML Parsing

Nicodemus nicodemus at esss.com.br
Tue Feb 17 20:19:53 EST 2004


Tyler Eaves wrote:

>Hi,
>
>	Right now I'm using xml.dom.minidom for parsing some xml files. It
>	works, certainly, but the speed leaves a bit to be desired. Are there
>	any other XML modules that offer the same interface minidom does, but
>	are faster? Things like validation are not a big deal for me, as all
>	the XML is generated by my own programs, so I'm not worried about
>	malformed documents.
>

Take a look at Fredrik Lundh's element tree:
http://effbot.org/zone/element-index.htm

It's fast and very pythonic... I use it all the time.

Regards,
Nicodemus.





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