Ha the guru himself responding :-)
--- On Wed, 25/2/09, Paul McGuire <pt...@austin.rr.com> wrote: > From: Paul McGuire <pt...@austin.rr.com> > Subject: Re: XML Parsing > To: python-list@python.org > Date: Wednesday, 25 February, 2009, 2:04 PM > On Feb 25, 1:17 am, hrishy <hris...@yahoo.co.uk> > wrote: > > Hi > > > > Something like this > > > <snip solution using ElementTree> > > > > Note i am not a python programmer just a enthusiast > and i was curious why people on the list didnt suggest a > code like above > > > > You just beat the rest of us to it - good example of > ElementTree for > parsing XML (and I Iearned the '//' shortcut for > one or more > intervening tag levels). > > To the OP: if you are parsing XML, I would look hard at the > modules > (esp. ElementTree) that are written explicitly for XML, > before > considering using regular expressions. There are just too > many > potential surprises when trying to match XML tags - > presence/absence/ > order of attributes, namespaces, whitespace inside tags, to > name a > few. > > -- Paul > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
