On Aug 18, 11:24 am, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote: > inder wrote: > > On Aug 17, 8:31 pm, John Posner <jjpos...@optimum.net> wrote: > >>> Use the iterparse() function of the xml.etree.ElementTree package. > >>>http://effbot.org/zone/element-iterparse.htm > >>>http://codespeak.net/lxml/parsing.html#iterparse-and-iterwalk > >>> Stefan > >> iterparse() is too big a hammer for this purpose, IMO. How about this: > > >> from xml.etree.ElementTree import ElementTree > >> tree = ElementTree(None, "myfile.xml") > >> for elem in tree.findall('//book/title'): > >> print elem.text > > >> -John > > > Thanks for the prompt reply . > > > I feel let me try using iterparse. Will it be slower compared to SAX > > parsing ... ultimately I will have a huge xml file to parse ? > > If you use the cElementTree module, it may even be faster. > > > Another question , I will also need to validate my xml against xsd . I > > would like to do this validation through the parsing tool itself . > > In that case, you can use lxml instead of ElementTree. > > http://codespeak.net/lxml/ > > Stefan
Hi , Is lxml part of standard python package ? I am having python 2.5 . I might not be able to use any additional package other than the standard python . Could you please suggest something part of standard python package ? Thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
