Tommy Nordgren wrote: >> On 31 okt 2007, at 21.24, Sean Davis wrote: >> >>> I have some very large XML files that are basically recordsets. I >>> would like to access each record, one-at-a-time, and I particularly >>> like the ElementTree library for accessing the data. Is there a way >>> to have ElementTree read only one record of the data at a time? >>> Alternatively, are there other ways that would allow one to parse out >>> a record at a time and maintain some nice ways of accessing the >>> elements within the record? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Sean >>> >> You need a Python (or other language) implementation of the SAX API >> > The module you need is xml.sax
That's unlikely - few people "need" SAX. If they think they do, they just don't know the alternatives. I think iterparse() is what he was looking for. Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
