Confused: looking for a simple XML parser

[Rex]

Hello,

I am a Python programmer facing my first small XML project. I am
looking to find a simple tool to take an XSD file and convert the XSD
tree structure to another text format (e.g. an adjacency matrix for
the tree's graph), or convert one xml file format definition into
another, non-xml one. I don't need to validate XML documents created
by this schema or do anything else fancy. I just need to be able to
traverse this tree programmatically and find which child attributes
belong to which parent attributes, etc.

There seem to be so many Python libraries and programs out there that
I don't know what to use.

What tool should I use?

Thanks,
Rex

[Marek Kubica]

Hi,

On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:21:56 -0700, Rex wrote:

What tool should I use?

For easy stuff ElementTree (bundled with Python 2.5 but also available to
older versions), for more complex stuff lxml (which extends the ET API,
so the learning curve is incremental).

regards,
Marek

[Kay Schluehr]

On 16 Aug., 02:21, Rex <[e-mail]:

Hello,

I am a Python programmer facing my first small XML project. I am
looking to find a simple tool to take an XSD file and convert the XSD
tree structure to another text format (e.g. an adjacency matrix for
the tree's graph), or convert one xml file format definition into
another, non-xml one. I don't need to validate XML documents created
by this schema or do anything else fancy. I just need to be able to
traverse this tree programmatically and find which child attributes
belong to which parent attributes, etc.

There seem to be so many Python libraries and programs out there that
I don't know what to use.

What tool should I use?

Thanks,
Rex

Many people seem to be happy with elementree and it might be the most
adequate parser for your purposes. Personally I'm sticking with expat
and define handlers to build custom data structures. Both expat and
elementree are available in the standard library.

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-xm...ers.expat.html
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-xm...ementTree.html