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Parse XML file into Python object

I have an XML file which looks like this: <encspot> <file> <Name>some filename.mp3</Name> <Encoder>Gogo (after 3.0)</Encoder> ...
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UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xef' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

I want to parse my XML document. So I have stored my XML document as below class XMLdocs(db.Expando): id = db.IntegerProperty() name=db.StringProperty() content=db.BlobProperty() ...
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lxml etree xmlparser namespace problem

I have an xml doc that I am trying to parse using Etree.lxml <Envelope xmlns="http://www.xxx.com/zzz/yyy"> <Header> <Version>1</Version> </Header> <Body> ...
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How to efficiently store this parsed XML document in MySQL Database using Python?

Following is the XML file : book.xml <?xml version="1.0" ?> <!--Sample XML Document--> <bookstore> <book _id="E7854"> <title> Sample XML Book ...
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Python to parse non-standard XML file

My input file is actually multiple XML files appending to one file. (It's from Google Patents). It has below structure: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE us-patent-grant ...
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Unicode Encoding Errors Python - Parsing XML can't encode a character (Star)

I am a beginner to Python and am currently parsing a web-based XML file from the eventful.com API however, I am receiving some unicode errors when retrieving certain elements of the data. I am able ...
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Parsing XML with namespace in Python ElementTree

I have the following xml, which I want to parse using Python's ElementTree <rdf:RDF xml:base="http://dbpedia.org/ontology/" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" ...
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Parsing blank XML tags with LXML and Python

When parsing XML documents in the format of: <Car> <Color>Blue</Color> <Make>Chevy</Make> <Model>Camaro</Model> </Car> I use the ...
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save data in xml file to mysql database(xml parsing)

I am new to xmp paring,i am trying to save the data from xml file to mysql database. I learned about deserialization in django my book.xml is <?xml version="1.0"?> <bookstore> ...
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python lxml with py2exe

I have Generated an XML with dom and i want to use lxml to pretty print the xml. this is my code for pretty print the xml def prettify_xml(xml_str): import lxml.etree as etree root = ...
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Why is ElementTree.iterparse() raising a ParseError?

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET xmldata = file('my_xml_file.xml') tree = ET.parse(xmldata) root = tree.getroot() root_iter = root.iter() Now I can call root_iter.next() and get my Element ...
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Python - Which is faster to parse Json or XML? [closed]

From my observations overall JSON is faster to Parse than XML. I have found two good question regarding this. One is asked for PHP and other is asked for JavaScript. I want to know about python, how ...
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Python XML parsing not working for some sites

I have a very basic XML parser based on the tutorial provided here, for the purpose of reading RSS feeds in Python. def GetRSS(RSSurl): url_info = urllib.urlopen(RSSurl) if (url_info): ...
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parsing an xml file for unknown elements using python ElementTree

I wish to extract all the tag names and their corresponding data from a multi-purpose xml file. Then save that information into a python dictionary (e.g tag = key, data = value). The catch being the ...
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Commenting and uncommenting XML via Python

I would like to know of a way to comment and uncomment an element in XML using Python. <target depends="create-build-dir" name="build-Folio"> <property name="project.name" ...

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