David Shi via Python-list <python-list@python.org> writes: > Which one is the best XML-parser?
"best" is not an absolute term but depends on criteria/conditions. There are essentially two kinds of parsers: incremental parsers which parse the structure and report events for everything they see and non-incremental parses which transform the complete XML into a data structure. You want an incremental parser if the XML documents are so huge that you must process them incrementally rather than have a data structure representing the whole document (in memory). Incremental parsers for XML are usually called "SAX" parsers. If your XML documents have moderate size, you might prefer a non-incremental parser. Personally, I like "lxml" (a binding to the "libxml2" C-library). It supports a lot of features: besides simple parsing, it supports verification against XML-schema and DTDs, XPath and XSLT-transforms. This means, with one XML tool you can handle all tasks typically encoutered with XML processing. However, "lxml" depends on an external C-library ("libxml2"). Therefore, it might be considered more difficult to install than "pure python" XML parsers. These examples show: "best" depends on your situation, your tasks and your preferences. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list