[BangPypers] parsing xml

[Joseph Gladson]

Hi,

check and try pyparsing module... U could do it so simple....:)

regards,
joseph

On 7/29/11, Ramdas S <ramdaz at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 1:23 AM, Gora Mohanty <gora at mimirtech.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Venkatraman S <venkat83 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > parsing using minidom is one of the slowest. if you just want to extract
>> the
>> > distance and assuming that it(the tag) will always be consistent, then i
>> > would always suggest regexp. xml parsing is a pain.
>> [...]
>>
>> Strongly disagree. IMHO, regexps are the wrong solution
>> for parsing XML (or, any kind of well-structured text), as
>> they end up becoming intolerably complex, and do not
>> degrade gracefully for broken XML.
>>
>> Have not compared speeds myself, but there are blogs
>> that go into that. In my experience, the cleanest, most
>> efficient, and richest-in-features Python XML library is
>> lxml. For people used to BeautifulSoup, lxml has a
>> BeautifulSoup parser, and is significantly more efficient.
>>
>>
> If it's a questions of the fastest gun around it must be cElementTree, and
> please refer the table somewhere towards bottom of the page. Caveat, the
> page belongs to effbot who is written the package.
>
> http://effbot.org/zone/celementtree.htm
>
>> Regards,
>> Gora
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