Sorry , I didn't follow the format of posting to the group. Well I am new to xml and python . What I basically want to do is to read elements from the xml which is by the way large ~2GB and read the attributes and make a decision as to whether i want to keep that element or not . I am told that xml.sax is good for reading a large xml file because it can read from a stream but what about writing the xml file back Thank you for your help.<br>
<br>On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Alan Gauld <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alan.gauld@btinternet.com">alan.gauld@btinternet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
"amit sethi" <<a href="mailto:amit.pureenergy@gmail.com" target="_blank">amit.pureenergy@gmail.com</a>> wrote<br>
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Please, always use a meaningful subject line when posting!<br>
and do not reply to an existing thread, changing the subject.<br>
These things mess up threaded reading tools such as gmane<br>
and newsreaders. This reduces your chances of a reply.<br>
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Hi can any body give me an example as to how i can use Incremental Parser in<br>
xml.sax<br>
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If you look in the XML Topic Guide section of the Python web site there<br>
is a full tutorial on using SAX. This is a good starting point:<br>
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<a href="http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/topics/docs.html" target="_blank">http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/topics/docs.html</a><br>
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But frankly I'd strongly advise you to look at ElementTree if you are<br>
parsing XML. Its much easier to use. The only time I'd use sax nowadays<br>
is if I was porting code from some other sax based solution.<br>
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