Hi, just a little reminder. There are still places left for this event. Stefan -------- Original-Message -------- Hi all, I'm giving a one day introductory level XML/lxml training at the Python Academy in Leipzig, Germany, titled "High Performance XML with Python", on Mai 19, 2011. Course language is English. You can find the course page and registration links here: http://www.python-academy.com/courses/python_course_xml.html It is part of a one week Python Power Course with medium to advanced level Python courses (to be booked separately or in a row): http://www.python-academy.com/courses/python_power_course.html Please forward this announcement to interested parties. Thanks! Stefan ## Target Audience The course targets medium level to experienced Python programmers who want to generate and/or process XML (and, to some extend, HTML) content efficiently. A basic understanding of XML is helpful but not required. ## Motivation The objective of this course if to get an understanding of important XML technologies, and to learn how to use the available tools by example. ## Content Initially, the course will build up a common understanding of XML (specifically the XML Infoset) and some of its applications. The main theme then deals with efficient processing of XML (and a bit of HTML) in Python. The presented tool set includes the ElementTree library that comes with Python since version 2.5, and the freely available lxml library that combines a compatible Python API with a large set of additional XML features. 1) Introduction to XML * XML and the XML Infoset * XML Namespaces * Dealing with XML formats 2) Fast XML processing * Parsing and serializing XML files * Extracting information from XML documents (tree navigation, XPath, CSS selectors) * Processing and transforming XML documents in main memory * Generating XML documents * Stream processing of large XML files that do not fit into main memory 3) Advanced topics * Creating proprietary XML formats * Validating XML formats with schema languages (e.g. RelaxNG, Schematron) * Binding XML documents to Python objects (lxml.objectify) * Creating application specific XML APIs with lxml * Introduction to stylesheet transformations (XSLT processing) Note that the advanced topics are subject to time constraints. A choice will be made based on the interest of the participants. _______________________________________________ Mailing list for the lxml Python XML toolkit - http://lxml.de/ lxml@lxml.de http://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/lxml