You could try:
import xml.etree.cElementTree as etree
result = urlfetch.fetch(url)
if result.status_code == 200:
## parse XML return
dom = etree.fromstring(result.content)
## build list of returned products by traversing parsed XML
items =
Thanks for the feedback.
The Atom file is typically small ~100KB.
I am using both minidom (for extracting entities) and BeautifulSoup
(to extract properties from entries).
Which XML parser do you recommend? I'm a just starting with Python.
What is the fastest setup to fetch and parse Atom feeds
Are you doing anything other than parsing the XML? Also, how big is the Atom
feed? > 10MB?
Also, are you using a DOM parser or stream based? Stream based will be a bit
faster.
Finally, how long does it take you to parse, say, 100 Atom entries using
your code? I would expect the time to be on th
