untanglevsxml2
untangle is a simple library for parsing XML documents in Python. It allows you to access data in an XML file as if it were a Python object, making it easy to work with the data in your code.
To use untangle, you first need to install it via pip by running pip install untangle``.
Once it is installed, you can use theuntangle.parse()`` function to parse an XML file and create a Python object.
For example:
import untangle
obj = untangle.parse("example.xml")
print(obj.root.element.child)
You can also pass a file-like object or a string containing XML data to the untangle.parse() function. Once you have an untangle object, you can access elements in the XML document using dot notation.
You can also access the attributes of an element by using attrib property, eg. `obj.root.element['attrib_name']`` untangle also supports xpath-like syntax to access the elements, obj.root.xpath("path/to/element")
It also supports iteration over the elements using obj.root.element.children
for child in obj.root.element.children:
print(child)
The xml2 package is a binding to libxml2, making it easy to work with HTML and XML from R. The API is somewhat inspired by jQuery.
xml2 can be used to parse HTML documents using XPath selectors and is a successor to R's XML package with a few improvements:
- xml2 takes care of memory management for you. It will automatically free the memory used by an XML document as soon as the last reference to it goes away.
- xml2 has a very simple class hierarchy so don't need to think about exactly what type of object you have, xml2 will just do the right thing.
- More convenient handling of namespaces in Xpath expressions - see xml_ns() and xml_ns_strip() to get started.
Example Use
import untangle
obj = untangle.parse("example.xml")
print(obj.root.element.child)
# access attributes:
print(obj.root.element['attrib_name'])
# use xpath:
element = obj.root.xpath("path/to/element")
library("xml2")
x <- read_xml("<foo> <bar> text <baz/> </bar> </foo>")
x
xml_name(x)
xml_children(x)
xml_text(x)
xml_find_all(x, ".//baz")
h <- read_html("<html><p>Hi <b>!")
h
xml_name(h)