Sullivan WxPyQtKinter wrote: > I am now using XML to record my lab records in quite a complex way, in > which about 80 tags are used to identify different types of data. I > think it is a good idea to search for a popular and mature XML search > engine before I started to program it myself: > > I need the following functions: > Search and get all the records that share the same tree structures. > Search records containing a specific node or sub tree structres. > > Does anyone know about something suitable? Or other powerful XML search > engine in Python? > Thank you so much for help.
XPath is your friend. Available at least in the 4suite-xml-libraries. I'm not aware of anything that resembles a more database-like approach, but at least you can issue queries against the xml. However you might reconsider your choice of a persistence model. Queries is what SQL is for, and you very well might be better off using e.g. sqlite and a XML-im/export if that is what you need. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
