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Is it possible to use XPath Query in Python while processing XML. I am using minidom which doesn't support that. Is there any other module for that?
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XPath Standard Functions. XPath includes over 200 built-in functions. There are functions for string values, numeric values, booleans, date and time comparison, node manipulation, sequence manipulation, and much more. These expressions can be used in JavaScript, Java, XML Schema, Python, and lots of other languages.
The XML Path Language (XPath) is used to uniquely identify or address parts of an XML document. An XPath expression can be used to search through an XML document, and extract information from any part of the document, such as an element or attribute (referred to as a node in XML) in it.
There are two ways to parse the file using 'ElementTree' module. The first is by using the parse() function and the second is fromstring() function. The parse () function parses XML document which is supplied as a file whereas, fromstring parses XML when supplied as a string i.e within triple quotes.
http://docs.python.org/library/xml.etree.elementtree.html
etree supports XPath queries, just like lxml.
etree is included in the standard library, but lxml is faster.
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