Hi, Everyone: what's the most popular xml parser module on python?

[Stefan Behnel]

Jo Chan, 15.04.2010 10:52:
> I just want to get the content from a XML.

That's not a very specific description of what you want to do. What's "the
content"? The plain text content? Or do you care about the structure? And
what parts of the structure?


> I learn that there are two
> modules in python handling XML.(SAX and DOM)  Er, I just want to know if
> there is some open source tools for handling XML which is easier to use or
> has more powerful function.

Try xml.etree.ElementTree, it's certainly much easier to use than the two
above, and it's also in the stdlib. If you need more powerful features,
take a look at lxml.etree, which is a (mostly) compatible external package.


> By the way, besides<Diving into python>  is there any great book for
> learning python?

That has been answered many times on this list. Check the archives, or look
through the book references at http://wiki.python.org

Stefan