build a hierarchical tree, without using DOM,schema, and sax using expat parser and c

[Stefan Behnel]

Wildemar Wildenburger wrote:
> sharan wrote:
>> I've been experimenting with the jclark's expat parser.  I compiled it
>> on
>> linux, and it works just great.  However, finding tags and data by
>> implementing the callback functions in c language is cumbersome.
>> Has anybody written code that uses the expat callback's in such a way
>> as to
>> build a hierarchical tree, without using DOM,schema, and sax, that can
>> be traversed.My purpose, just enough to traverse branches and find
>> leafs of a xml documents without using DOM, schema, and sax, and i
>> also want help regarding how to convert a xml document to a
>> hierachical tree which contains tags values. thanks
> 
> Not sure if I completely follow you. Maybe ElementTree could be of help?

Just a quick note that it actually uses expat for parsing, so there's no need
to fiddle with it on your own - especially since it's pretty hard to get any
faster than the C implementation of ET, cElementTree, is already...

Stefan