What is the fastest way to parse large XML docs in Python?
I am currently running the following code based on Chapter 12.5 of the Python Cookbook:
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Can ElementTree be told to preserve the order of attributes?
I’ve written a fairly simple filter in python using ElementTree to munge the contexts of some xml files. And it works, more or less.
How can this function be rewritten to implement OrderedDict?
I have the following function which does a crude job of parsing an XML file into a dictionary. Unfortunately, since Python dictionaries are not ordered, I am unable to cycle through the nodes as I would like. How do I change this so it outputs an ordered dictionary which reflects the original order of the … Read more
Remove namespace and prefix from xml in python using lxml
I have an xml file I need to open and make some changes to, one of those changes is to remove the namespace and prefix and then save to another file.
Here is the xml:
How to output CDATA using ElementTree
I’ve discovered that cElementTree is about 30 times faster than xml.dom.minidom and I’m rewriting my XML encoding/decoding code. However, I need to output XML that contains CDATA sections and there doesn’t seem to be a way to do that with ElementTree.
using lxml and iterparse() to parse a big (+- 1Gb) XML file
I have to parse a 1Gb XML file with a structure such as below and extract the text within the tags “Author” and “Content”:
How do I use a default namespace in an lxml xpath query?
I have an xml document in the following format:
How to use Python XML findall to find ”
I’m trying to do a find all from a Word document for <v:imagedata r:id="rId7" o:title="1-REN"/> with namespace xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" and I cannot figure out what on earth the syntax is.
How can I create a Word document using Python?
I’d like to create a Word document using Python, however, I want to re-use as much of my existing document-creation code as possible. I am currently using an XSLT to generate an HTML file that I programatically convert to a PDF file. However, my client is now requesting that the same document be made available … Read more
Empty list returned from ElementTree findall
I’m new to xml parsing and Python so bear with me. I’m using lxml to parse a wiki dump, but I just want for each page, its title and text.