xml, minidom, ElementTree

[Paul Rudin]

Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> writes:

> In the near future I will need to parse and rewrite parts of a xml files
> created by a third-party program (PrintShopMail, for the curious).
> It contains both binary and textual data.
>
> There has been some strong debate about the merits of minidom vs
> ElementTree.
>
> Recommendations?

I tend to start with BeautifulSoup, and think about other things if that
doesn't work out. It might just be me, but I find it easier to get stuff
done using BeautifulSoup than either minidom or ElementTree.