Parsing xml file using python

[Sam Smith]

Please try the following code.  As Tim says everything you need for
your problem at hand is included in the core distribution.  Look for
documentation for xml.sax module.

Code ::

 import xml.sax.handler
 import xml.sax
 import sys

 class ReadXML(xml.sax.handler.ContentHandler):
    def __init__(self, xml_file):
        xml.sax.handler.ContentHandler.__init__(self)
        self.content = ""                
        xml.sax.parse(xml_file, self)

    def characters(self, content):
        self.content = self.content.lstrip().rstrip() + " " + content
    
 if __name__=="__main__":
    if len(sys.argv) != 3:
        print "usage: %prog xml_file output_file"
        sys.exit()
    xml_file = sys.argv[1]
    output_file = sys.argv[2]    
    readXML = ReadXML(xml_file)
    f = file(output_file, "w+")
    f.write(readXML.content)
    f.close()