Re: A Unique XML Parsing Problem

2010-10-24 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message , Piet van Oostrum wrote: > With xsltproc song.xsl song*.xml you would get your output. > No python necessary. Is that supposed to be some kind of advantage? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: A Unique XML Parsing Problem

2010-10-24 Thread Piet van Oostrum
Devon writes: > I must quickly and efficiently parse some data contained in multiple > XML files in order to perform some learning algorithms on the data. > Info: > > I have thousands of files, each file corresponds to a single song. > Each XML file contains information extracted from the song (c

Re: A Unique XML Parsing Problem

2010-10-24 Thread Stefan Behnel
Devon, 24.10.2010 01:40: I must quickly and efficiently parse some data contained in multiple XML files in order to perform some learning algorithms on the data. I have thousands of files, each file corresponds to a single song. Each XML file contains information extracted from the song (called

Re: A Unique XML Parsing Problem

2010-10-23 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message <0af3e9b1-8d3d-4efd-99d6-ca033204e...@n26g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>, Devon wrote: > I have heard about Beautiful Soup but never used it. BeautifulSoup is intended for HTML parsing. It is, or was, particularly good at dealing with badly-formed HTML, as commonly found on lots of websit

Re: A Unique XML Parsing Problem

2010-10-23 Thread Chris Rebert
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Devon wrote: > I must quickly and efficiently parse some data contained in multiple > XML files in order to perform some learning algorithms on the data. > Info: > > I have thousands of files, each file corresponds to a single song. > Each XML file contains informa