inder wrote: > On Aug 17, 8:31 pm, John Posner <jjpos...@optimum.net> wrote: >>> Use the iterparse() function of the xml.etree.ElementTree package. >>> http://effbot.org/zone/element-iterparse.htm >>> http://codespeak.net/lxml/parsing.html#iterparse-and-iterwalk >>> Stefan >> iterparse() is too big a hammer for this purpose, IMO. How about this: >> >> from xml.etree.ElementTree import ElementTree >> tree = ElementTree(None, "myfile.xml") >> for elem in tree.findall('//book/title'): >> print elem.text >> >> -John > > Thanks for the prompt reply . > > I feel let me try using iterparse. Will it be slower compared to SAX > parsing ... ultimately I will have a huge xml file to parse ?
If you use the cElementTree module, it may even be faster. > Another question , I will also need to validate my xml against xsd . I > would like to do this validation through the parsing tool itself . In that case, you can use lxml instead of ElementTree. http://codespeak.net/lxml/ Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
