David Mertz's gnosis utilities include the module gnosis.xml.objectify, which makes parsing XML in python as simple as could be.
from gnosis.xml import objectify
xmltext = """<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<root><first canned="true" yummy="false">spam</first><second>egg</second></root>"""
inst = objectify.make_instance(xmltext)
print "first:", inst.first.PCDATA
print " canned:", inst.first.canned
print " yummy:", inst.first.yummy
print "second:", inst.second.PCDATA
Output:
first: spam
canned: true
yummy: false
second: egg
I wanted a similarly simple way to write XML, so [...]
