[Tutor] xml parsing from xml

[Alan Gauld]

On 07/05/14 14:13, jitendra gupta wrote:

> I thought to do via read a line by line with normal file handling. but
> there a problem with that. So i want to handle python XML . Could you
> please suggest on this.

Python comes with several XML parsers. The simplest to use are probably 
sax and ElementTree (aka etree). The documenation gives examples of 
both. sax is easiest and fastest for simple XML in big files while etree 
is probably better for more complex XML structures.

Your XML looks fairly simple

> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <data>
>      <country  name="Liechtenstein">
>          <rank  updated="yes">2</rank>
>          <year>2008</year>
>          <gdppc>141100</gdppc>
>          <neighbor  name="Austria"  direction="E"/>
>          <neighbor  name="Switzerland"  direction="W"/>
>      </country>
> </data>

Either parser should be fine, see which one suits your
personal style best.

For more specific help we need more specific information.

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