Hi, check and try pyparsing module... U could do it so simple....:)
regards, joseph On 7/29/11, Ramdas S <ram...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 1:23 AM, Gora Mohanty <g...@mimirtech.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Venkatraman S <venka...@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 >> _______________________________________________ >> BangPypers mailing list >> BangPypers@python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers >> > > > > -- > Ramdas S > +91 9342 583 065 > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > -- Sent from my mobile device _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers