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iterparse is used by XML parsers for tracking changes to the tree while it is being built

This tag is used in an XML parsing code. Usually iterparse builds a tree when parsing the XML. Also you can safely rearrange or remove parts of the tree while parsing.

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Iterparse returns empty iterable when parsing xml with a default namespace

I'm parsing an xml document using iterparse. from lxml import etree import tempfile content = """ g …
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XMLSyntax error while using iterparse

I am parsing a large XML file in Python. The relevant part of the large XML file is as follows :
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best practices for iterparse usage while keeping the context?

Following a question I asked on iterparse general usage (and its answer by J F Sebastian) I will reorganise my code to parse nessus XML result files. Quoting from the earlier question, the file structure is
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GAE Python LXML - XMLSyntaxError Specification mandate value for attribute object

I am using Google App Engine on Python and am trying to fetch a GZipped XML file and parse it with LXML's iterparse. I used the example from lxml.de to create the following code: import gzip, base64, StringIO from lxml import etree from…
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How to skip a node which raises an error when using cElementTree.iterparse()

I am trying to parse a very big XML file and do lower case and remove punctuation. The problem is that when I try to parse this file using the cET parse function for big files, at some point it comes across a bad formatted tag or character which…
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Can't iterate over children's children because of the subsequent .clear()?

I'm trying to use the pattern described in the "event-driven parsing" section of the lxml tutorial. In my code I'm calling a function that can recursively run on elements using the iterchildren() method. I'll just use two nested loop for…
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Getting subelements using lxml and iterparse

I am trying to write a parsing algorithm to efficiently pull data from an xml document. I am currently rolling through the document based on elements and children, but would like to use iterparse instead. One issue is that I have a list of elements…
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OOM when using iterparse on huge XML dump file

Reading the large StackOverflow XML dump file (Posts.xml ~90 GB) through the following approach from xml.etree.cElementTree import iterparse for evt, elem in iterparse("Posts.xml", events=('end',)): if elem.tag == 'row': user_fields =…
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