What XML lib to use?

[Edvard Majakari]

Kalle Anke <skromta at gmail.com> writes:

> I'm confused, I want to read/write XML files but I don't really understand 
> what library to use.
>
> I've used DOM-based libraries in other languages, is PyXML the library to 
> use?

It depends. Like there's no best car - "best" is very dependant on use of the
vehicle concerned in addition to personal preferences - there's no best XML
module either. Some seem very well in many respects, though :)

I recommend using EffBot's ElementTree. It's very simple to use (you get to do
stuff without thinking delicacies of parsing/generating), and it is
_fast_. Now let me repeat the last part - normally speed is of no concern
with the computers we have nowadays, but using eg. xml.minidom to process
files of size > 10 MB, your system might get very sluggish unless you are
quite careful in traversing the parse tree (and maybe even then).

Using a SAX / full-compliant DOM parser could be good for learning things,
though. As I said, depends a lot.

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