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How do I parse some of the data from a large xml file?

I need to extract the location and radius data from a large xml file that is formatted as below and store the data in 2-dimensional ndarray. This is my first time using Python and I can't find ...
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Mapping user id onto a dict comparing to see if user is already in dict

I have code which currently prints out data for each user from an XML file (obtained from a website) the XML updates as more users interact with it throughout the day. I currently have my code looping ...
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Merging XML files using python

I have two XML files: The first one contains the following tags: <book id=1> <chpater id=1> <sentence id = 1> blaa blaa blaa blaa </sentence> <sentence id = 2> blaa ...
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Read XML file like text file

is there any way to read xml file like reading text file(line by line)? In my work for some cases i have to read only specific lines. I'm using minidom for parsing xml.
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Grab Content from XML using Python? almost there

I'm using ElementTree and I can get tags and attributes but not that actual content between elements. from this XML: <tag_name attrib="1">I WANT THIS INFO HERE</tag_name> here's my ...
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How to find the character position of something specified with a <tag>…</>? Python

I am trying to get the position of the < and > that are realtag when they are embedded in something like this <tag "510270">calculate</>. I have sentences like these: sentence = ...
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Parsing xml to pandas data frame throws memory error

I am trying to put 1. a parent attribute 2. a child attribute and 3. a grandchild text into a data frame. I am able to get the child attribute and the grandchild text to print out on the screen, but I ...
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Easiest way to send XML via HTTP requests in Python?

Is there a preferred python module that could help me to send XML through a HTTP request and be able to parse the returning XML?
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Python code to remove HTML tags from a string

I have a text like this: text = """<div> <h1>Title</h1> <p>A long text........ </p> <a href=""> a link </a> </div>""" using pure Python, with no ...
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Supressing namespace prefixes in ElementTree 1.2

In python 2.7 (with etree 1.3), I can suppress the XML prefixes on elements like this: Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Jun 16 2011, 16:59:05) [GCC 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build ...
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How to select following sibling/xml tag using xpath

I have an HTML file (from Newegg) and their HTML is organized like below. All of the data in their specifications table is 'desc' while the titles of each section are in 'name.' Below are two ...
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How do I parse XML in python?

I have many rows in a database that contain xml and I'm trying to write a python script that will go through those rows and count how many instances of a particular node attribute show up. For ...
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Pretty printing XML in python

What is the best way (or even the various ways) to pretty print xml in python?
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xml.dom.minidom: Getting CDATA values

I'm able to get the value in the image tag (see XML below), but not the Category tag. The difference is one is a CDATA section and the other is just a string. Any help would be appreciated. from ...
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What is the fastest way to parse large XML docs in Python?

I am currently the following code based on Chapter 12.5 of the Python Cookbook: from xml.parsers import expat class Element(object): def __init__(self, name, attributes): self.name = ...

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