XML Tree Discovery (script, tool, __?)

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"""
The output I was contemplating was a DOM "DNA" - that is the DOM
without the instances of the elements or their data, a bare tree, a
prototype tree based on what is in the document (rather than what is
legal to include in the document).

Just enough data that for an arbitrary element I would know:

1) whether the element was in a document
2) where to find it (the chain of parents)
"""

This is easy to do in SAX.  For some hints, see page 2 of my article:

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/11/24/py-xml.html

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