What library/package to use for parsing XML?

Chris Green cl at isbd.net
Mon Jan 30 12:58:30 EST 2017


I want to parse some XML data, it's the address book data from the
linux program osmo.  The file I want to parse is like this:-

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <osmo_contacts>
      <contacts_groups/>
      <contacts_records>
        <record>
          <group>None</group>
          <first_name>Peter and Denise</first_name>
          <last_name>Smith</last_name>
          <birthday_date>0</birthday_date>
          <name_day_date>0</name_day_date>
          <home_address>Some address</home_address>
          <home_postcode>AAA BBB</home_postcode>
          <home_state>Oxfordshire</home_state>
        </record>
      </contacts_records>
    </osmo_contacts>


I basically want to be able to extract the data and output in other
formats - e.g. write to a Sqlite3 database and/or CSV.

So what do I need to import (and probably install first) to do this?


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Chris Green
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