Python for XML processing (newbie)

Markus Schaber markus at schabi.de
Wed Aug 29 12:59:38 EDT 2001


Garry Hodgson <garry at sage.att.com> schrub:

> Karthik Gurumurthy wrote:
> 
>> i have written a few xml parsing stuff using python's xml library.
>> I c'd get things done easily.
>> I w'd greatly appreciate it if someone c'd point out the difference
>> between using say a
>> java parser like xerces and the one we have in the python library.
>> any advantages?? etc?
> 
> the advantage to using the python library is that you don't
> have to use java.

ROTFL!

But I don't think that's just the answer he wanted to hear...

And: With Jython, you can easily use xerxes without programming in java 
:-)

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