Python and XML Processing

XML is the 'Extensible Markup Language', a data format for structured document interchange. It seems to have considerable momentum behind it, and will probably become very important over the next few years.

Python's power and ease of use combine to make it an excellent choice for writing programs that process XML data. This Topic Guide links to documentation and code for handling XML in Python, and also lists some selected resources for learning about XML.

General XML Resources
XML	General guides to XML, FAQs, tutorials
SAX	The Simple API for XML. It provides an event-based interface to XML parsers.
DOM	The Document Object Model represents an XML document as a tree, and code can be written to examine and modify the tree.
XML Books	Books that are recommended for learning about XML.
Python Software for XML
Documentation	Tutorials and reference documention.
Download	How to get the code
Sample Code	Example programs that demonstrate XML processing.
Other Software	Other software for XML work with Python.
The Python/XML Special Interest Group
SIG page	Information about the XML-SIG
SIG status	The current status of the XML-SIG effort.
Subscribing	How to join the mailing list
Archives	Archives of past discussion
Anonymous CVS	Anonymous CVS access to the XML-SIG's development source tree is available.
DTDs	XML-SIG participants have invented some specialized Document Type Declarations. Those DTDs have a permanent home here.
XBEL	The XML Bookmark Exchange Language grew out of an idea for a demonstration of using Python for XML processing. More information, including complete documentation on the DTD, is available.