>>>>> Shawn Milochik <sh...@milochik.com> (SM) wrote: >SM> On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 3:46 AM, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Can someone give me a heads up on xml parsing in python? >>> The context is that I want to write a simple docbook to text converter. >>> DOM is alright -- dont want to break my head with SAX just for performance >>> when my documents are not likely to be large. >>> >>> My problem is that there seems to be so many nearly equivalent ways (Pyxml? >>> Amara?) some of which have moved from 3rd party to builtin status that I am >>> not clear what is the current method of choice. >>> >>> Thanks >>> --
>SM> I've been using minidom for simple XML processing with success. The >SM> XML module seems to be the way to go, considering how many of its >SM> child modules are listed on http://docs.python.org/library/. >SM> import xml.dom.minidom as minidom These days ElementTree is considered the most pythonic way. http://docs.python.org/library/xml.etree.elementtree.html There is also a reimplementation of the ElementTree API based on libxml2 and libxslt, which has more features but requires a separate install. It is largely compatible with ElementTree, however. -- Piet van Oostrum <p...@cs.uu.nl> URL: http://pietvanoostrum.com [PGP 8DAE142BE17999C4] Private email: p...@vanoostrum.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
