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Sunday, June 20, 2004

Pythonic XML APIs

I'm looking for Pythonic XML APIs I've come across in the past. Basically, I want to be able to access some simple XML data in Python without having to use a SAX API or some other monstrosity.

Basically my goal is to have something as easy to use for Python as my XML library is for PHP.

So far I've (re)found Ned Batchelder's HandyXML library and Uche Ogbuji's Anobind.

Hmm... Uche Ogbuji's The State of the Python-XML Art, 2003 is probably very worth looking through.

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edited: 21:46 (utc-4)

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Er.. sorry, just noticed you're already aware of libxml2. Well, I can't really recommend anything then. I've been using libxml2 for everything. Hmm... you might want to look at ElementTree:

http://effbot.org/zone/element-index.htm

just noticed you're already aware of libxml2

Yeah, I've been using libxml2 for everything. It rules.

∴ Keith | 20-Jun-2004 9:12pm est | http://keithdevens.com/ | #4830

I should have mentioned that the reason I'm not turning to libxml2 for this particular bit of what I need to do is because, at the point I'm planning to use this, I have simple data-oriented XML I need to parse for which one of the tools linked above would be most appropriate.

∴ Keith | 20-Jun-2004 10:54pm est | http://keithdevens.com/ | #4831

∴ Simon Willison | 21-Jun-2004 1:49am est | http://simon.incutio.com/ | #4833

Beautiful Soup will actually work on XML as well as HTML (use the BeautifulStoneSoup class so it doesn't try to be smart about HTML), but that's assuming you've got that sort of passive-agressive mentality towards the XML you're trying to parse. If not, I second the recommendation for xmltramp; it has the same spirit as your PHP XML library.

∴ Leonard Richardson | 22-Jun-2004 10:39am est | http://www.crummy.com/ | #4834

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