> Yes, I personally think that (Mini)DOM should be locked away from beginners
> as far as possible.
Ok, I'm glad to hear that. I'll continue to work with ElementTree and
lxml and see where it takes me.
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Peter Otten, 02.07.2012 09:57:
> Sean Carolan wrote:
>>> Thank you, this is helpful. Minidom is confusing, even the
>>> documentation confirms this:
>>> "The name of the functions are perhaps misleading"
Yes, I personally think that (Mini)DOM should be locked away from beginners
as far as pos
Sean Carolan wrote:
>> Thank you, this is helpful. Minidom is confusing, even the
>> documentation confirms this:
>> "The name of the functions are perhaps misleading"
>>
>>> But I'd start with the etree tutorial (of which
>>> there are many variations on the web):
>
> Ok, so I read through
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Sean Carolan wrote:
> How do you say, "If the field is 11, then print the next value"? The
> raw XML looks like this:
>
>
> 1
> 11
> 9780470286975
>
>
Instead of iterating over the whole tree, grab all the elements
then retrieve the child, check the field va
> Thank you, this is helpful. Minidom is confusing, even the
> documentation confirms this:
> "The name of the functions are perhaps misleading"
>
>> But I'd start with the etree tutorial (of which
>> there are many variations on the web):
Ok, so I read through these tutorials and am at least
> The simplest way using the standard library tools is (IMHO)
> elementtree. minidom is a complex beast by comparison,
> especially if you are not intimately familiar with
> your XML structure.
Thank you, this is helpful. Minidom is confusing, even the
documentation confirms this:
"The name of th
On 01/07/12 21:49, Sean Carolan wrote:
... Is there a *simple* way to import an XML
file into a dictionary, list, or other usable data structure?
The simplest way using the standard library tools is (IMHO)
elementtree. minidom is a complex beast by comparison,
especially if you are not intimate
I'm trying to parse some XML data (Book titles, ISBN numbers and
descriptions) with Python. Is there a *simple* way to import an XML
file into a dictionary, list, or other usable data structure? I've
poked around with minidom, elementtree, and "untangle" but am not
really understanding how they a
