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SAX Parser in Python

SAX Parser in Python Question: I am parsing xml files in a folder using Python SAX Parser and writing the output in CSV using pandas, But I am getting only the data from last file in the CSV. I am new to Python and this is for the first time trying SAX Parsing File read: …

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How to stop SAX parsing?

How can I stop SAX parsing? Question: I am using a SAX parser (xml.sax) and it works how I want to. However, I am parsing quite a large file (hence why I use SAX) and I would like to stop parsing at some point (e.g., when I reached a certain limit, or when I found …

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Using Python's xml.etree to find element start and end character offsets

Using Python's xml.etree to find element start and end character offsets Question: I have XML data that looks like: <xml> The captial of <place pid=”1″>South Africa</place> is <place>Pretoria</place>. </xml> I would like to be able to extract: The XML elements as they’re currently provided in etree. The full plain text of the document, between the …

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Parse large RDF in Python

Parse large RDF in Python Question: I’d like to parse a very large (about 200MB) RDF file in python. Should I be using sax or some other library? I’d appreciate some very basic code that I can build on, say to retrieve a tag. Thanks in advance. Asked By: usertest || Source Answers: Not sure …

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XML parsing – ElementTree vs SAX and DOM

XML parsing – ElementTree vs SAX and DOM Question: Python has several ways to parse XML… I understand the very basics of parsing with SAX. It functions as a stream parser, with an event-driven API. I understand the DOM parser also. It reads the XML into memory and converts it to objects that can be …

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