Which XML?

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On Jun 24, 7:04 pm, Bruno Barberi Gnecco
<brunobgDELETET... at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>         I've found a lot of XML libraries for Python. Any advices on which
> one to use (or *not* to use)? My requirements are: support for XPath,
> stability (a must, segfaults are not an option), with DOM API and good
> performance desirable.
>
>         Thanks for any advice.
>
> --
> Bruno Barberi Gnecco <brunobg_at_users.sourceforge.net>

I use the minidom module for most of my XML work, but I don't think it
has much in the way of XPath. I think lxml might work better for that
sort of thing and I think it's part of ElementTree:

http://codespeak.net/lxml/dev/objectify.html

This guy kind of reviews the major XML modules:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2005/01/code_respecting_xpath_xml_pyth.html

Mike