There are two ways to parse the file using ‘ElementTree’ module. Let us now try to parse the above XML file using python module. It is a string representing the type of data being storedĬonsists of a number of attributes stored as dictionariesĪ text string having information that needs to be displayedĬonsists of a number of child elements stored as sequencesĮlementTree is a class that wraps the element structure and allows conversion to and from XML. Element type allows storage of hierarchical data structures in memory and has the following properties: This module helps us format XML data in a tree structure which is the most natural representation of hierarchical data. Let’s move on further to see how we can use these modules to parse XML data. Parsing means to read information from a file and split it into pieces by identifying parts of that particular XML file. Python allows parsing these XML documents using two modules namely, the module and Minidom (Minimal DOM Implementation). The above example shows the contents of a file which I have named as ‘Sample.xml’ and I will be using the same in this Python XML parser tutorial for all the upcoming examples. XML is exclusively designed to send and receive data back and forth between clients and servers. It is similar to HTML in its appearance but, XML is used for data presentation, while HTML is used to define what data is being used. XML stands for Extensible Markup Language. Here are all the topics that are covered in this tutorial:
In this Python XML Parser Tutorial, you will learn how to parse XML using Python.
Python provides numerous libraries to parse or split data written in other languages. We often require to parse data written in different languages.