Parcing XML Files?

[ultimatebuster]

I know I can accomplish this with Regex, however, being not familiar with RegEX (yet to find a good howto/reference), I was wondering if there's other simple ways to parce XML files, or if there's a tutorial for regex somewhere

For example, I want to get the Hello World! from <test>Hello World!</test> Also, how would I get the attributes from the tags? Like <test name="hello">

Thanks

[jcao219]

http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/topics/download.html

[ultimatebuster]

lol I also got the exact same thing after a quick google search. Still some questions though, I'm not exactly sure on what the difference between SAX and PyXML is

[jcao219]

PyXML or sax should be better than using regex.
Since they are dedicated to parsing XML.

[TrustyTony]

For simple lookup I gave this solution to other thread, of course special modules are maybe more powerful, but take some time to learn.

Any way here it again:

MyStr = "<test>some text here</test> <other> more text </other> <test> even more text</test>"

tlist = []
_,found,t = MyStr.partition('<test>')

while found:
    t,found,more = t.partition('</test>')
    if found:
        tlist.append(t) ## no assignment, just append
    else:
        raise ValueError, "Missing end tag: " + t
    
    _,found,t = more.partition('<test>')
    
print tlist

[ultimatebuster]

What I'm doing is sort of like a map, so therefore I probably HAVE to learn a dedicated Parcer.

Following a chapter 9 in Dive into Python. http://diveintopython.org/xml_processing/index.html

It's funny because I just got to chapter 9 today. I wouldnt of asked if I was there yesterday lol