dev-notes/Python/Standard Library/xml.md

XML Module CheatSheet

Submodules

The XML handling submodules are:

• xml.etree.ElementTree: the ElementTree API, a simple and lightweight XML processor
• xml.dom: the DOM API definition
• xml.dom.minidom: a minimal DOM implementation
• xml.dom.pulldom: support for building partial DOM trees
• xml.sax: SAX2 base classes and convenience functions
• xml.parsers.expat: the Expat parser binding

xml.etree.ElementTree

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

data = "<xml/>"

tree = ET.fromstring(data)  # parse string containing XML

tree.find("tag").text  # return data contained between <tag></tag>
tree.find("tag").get("attribute")  # return value of <tag attrubute="value">
tree.findall("tag1/tag2")  # list of tag2 inside tag1