xml question

[Larry Bates]

JYOUNG79 at kc.rr.com wrote:
> Just curious if there's any python xml parsing tools built into the Mac (OS 10.4.10 Tiger)?  If so, 
> could anyone 
> share some simple code (or maybe point me to a web-site) of how to parse xml data from a 
> file?  For example,  if I 
> had a file that contained this:
> 
> 		<colors>
> 			<color base="DeviceGray" />
> 			<color alt="DeviceCMYK" base="Separation">Black</color>
> 			<color alt="Lab" base="Separation">Light Blue</color>
> 			<color alt="ICCBased" base="Separation">Green</color>
> 		</colors>
> 
> I'd want to look in the 'colors' xml element, then look at each 'color' xml element inside and 
> pull any that have 
> values (which would be Black, Light Blue and Green).  I'd like to know how to pull 'attributes' 
> too.
> 
> Thanks very much for your help.
> 
> Jay

Python 2.5 has elementtree built into it.  You should be able to parse the XML 
and extract anything you want.

-Larry