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XML management.
https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonXml
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import xml.etree.cElementTree as ET | |
# Pyhton implementation: import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET | |
filename = 'myfile.xml' | |
tag = '' | |
text = '' | |
attrs = {} | |
# Document Tree XML parser (load the entire document into memory) | |
tree = ET.parse(filemane) | |
root = tree.getroot() | |
root = ET.fromstring(data_as_string) # Reading the data from a string | |
# Iterate over childs of an element | |
for child in root: | |
pass | |
# iterate recursively over all the sub-tree | |
for tag in root.iter(): | |
pass | |
# Interate over all tags with 'tag-name' | |
for tag in root.iter('tag-name'): | |
pass | |
# Event-driven XML parser (we can specify what events we want to capture: start tag, end tag) | |
for event, elem in ET.iterparse(filename): | |
tag = elem.tag | |
text = elem.text | |
attrs = elem.attrib | |
elem.find('tag-name') # first match with 'tag-name' | |
for elm in elem.findall('tag-name'): # all matches with 'tag-name' | |
pass | |
# XPath support | |
for elm in elem.findall('./subtag/subtag/tag-name'): | |
pass |
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