PyXML SAX Q?

[Alan Kennedy]

[mitsura at skynet.be]
> is it possible to use SAX to parse XML that is not in a file but in a
> large string?
> If I open my XML file and read the content into a string variable. Is
> there a way I can pass it to the PyXML Sax handler?
> The reason I want to know is that I need to parse XML that is generated
> by a process on a Unix system. I can connect to the process via a
> socket and the the XML but I need to store the XML somewhere before I
> can parse it.
> I could dump it to a file first and then hand it to the parser but that
> seems unefficient.
>
> Maybe I could read the XML from the socket directly into the parser.

You can find exactly what you need in this old thread about incremental
XML parsing.

Parsing XML streams
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/e97309244914343b?

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