[Tutor] XML parsing with SAX

[amit sethi]

Sorry , I didn't follow the format of posting to the group. Well I am new to
xml and python . What I basically want to do is to read elements from the
xml which is by the way large ~2GB and read the attributes and make a
decision as to whether i want to keep that element or not . I am told that
xml.sax is good for reading a large xml file because it can read from a
stream but what about writing the xml file back  Thank you for your help.

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com>wrote:

> "amit sethi" <amit.pureenergy at gmail.com> wrote
>
> Please, always use a meaningful subject line when posting!
> and do not reply to an existing thread, changing the subject.
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>
>  Hi can any body give me an example as to how i can use Incremental Parser
>> in
>> xml.sax
>>
>
> If you look in the XML Topic Guide section of the Python web site there
> is a full tutorial on using SAX. This is a good starting point:
>
> http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/topics/docs.html
>
> But frankly I'd strongly advise you to look at ElementTree if you are
> parsing XML. Its much easier to use. The only time I'd use sax nowadays
> is if I was porting code from some other sax based solution.
>
> http://effbot.org/zone/element-index.htm
>
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