What is the most state-of-the-art, pure python, XML parser available?

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Considering that I want to write python code that would run on Google App Engine and also inside jython, C-extensions are not an option. Amara was a nice library, but due to its C-extensions, I can't use it for either of these platforms.

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 09 '09 at 14:54

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ElementTree is very nice. It's also part of 2.5.

answered Jun 09 '09 at 14:54

Aaron Maenpaa

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@coonj ... indeed. ElementTree should be available in AppEngine and jython 2.5, but jython 2.2 is still recommended for production use (jython 2.5rc4 is out so it shouldn't be that much longer). – Aaron Maenpaa Jun 09 '09 at 15:18
@Blauohr Awesome! As I said, with rc4 out it shouldn't be that much longer. – Aaron Maenpaa Jun 17 '09 at 13:42

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 09 '09 at 14:56

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There's also Beautiful Soup (which may be geared more toward HTML, but it also does XML).

answered Jun 09 '09 at 14:56

brettkelly

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One problem I've run into with Beautiful Soup's XML parsing is that [it doesn't know about self-closing tags](http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/documentation.html#Parsing%20XML). – zekel Jun 20 '11 at 13:11

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 09 '09 at 14:55

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xml.sax is a builtin SAX parser

answered Jun 09 '09 at 14:55

Nicolas Dumazet

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 09 '09 at 15:05

I would normally recommend lxml, but since that uses a C-library (libxml) the alternative would have to be, as Aaron has already suggested, ElementTree (as far as I know there is both a pure python and a c implementation of it available). Found this via google search

Good luck!

What is the most state-of-the-art, pure python, XML parser available?

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