On Mar 8, 12:42 am, Stefan Behnel wrote:
> rpar...@gmail.com wrote:
> > I am trying to process an xml file that contains unicode characters
> > (seehttp://vyakarnam.wordpress.com/). Wordpress allows exporting the
> > entire content of the website into an xml file. Using
> > xml.dom.minidom, I wro
> For the described problem, maybe. But certainly not for the application.
> The background was parsing the XML dump of an entire web site, which I
> would expect to be larger than what minidom is designed to handle
> gracefully. Switching to cElementTree before major code gets written is
> almost
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>> Regarding minidom, you might be happier with the xml.etree package that
>> comes with Python2.5 and later (it's also avalable for older versions).
>> It's a lot easier to use, more memory friendly and also much faster.
>
> OTOH, choice of XML library is completely irrelev
> Regarding minidom, you might be happier with the xml.etree package that
> comes with Python2.5 and later (it's also avalable for older versions).
> It's a lot easier to use, more memory friendly and also much faster.
OTOH, choice of XML library is completely irrelevant for the issue at
hand. If
rpar...@gmail.com wrote:
> I am trying to process an xml file that contains unicode characters
> (see http://vyakarnam.wordpress.com/). Wordpress allows exporting the
> entire content of the website into an xml file. Using
> xml.dom.minidom, I wrote a few lines of python code to parse out the
> xm
