Structured Markup Processing

Python 2.1 provides extensive support for XML

     xml.dom             
     xml.dom.minidom     
     xml.dom.pulldom     
     xml.sax             
     xml.sax.handler     
     xml.sax.saxutils    
     xml.sax.xmlreader
     xml.parsers.expat
     xmllib  (deprecated)            
     sgmllib
     htmllib
     htmlentitydefs
     

This is a huge topic

  • I'm only going to discuss it briefly
  • There are a variety of HOWTOs and tutorials on the web.
<<< O'Reilly OSCON 2001, New Features in Python 2, Slide 62
July 26, 2001, beazley@cs.uchicago.edu
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