parse_xml_from_url

Example Python program parse_xml_from_url.py

Modules

• #import library to do http requests:
• import urllib2
• #import easy to use xml parser called minidom:
• from xml.dom.minidom import parseString
• #all these imports are standard on most modern python implementations

Code

Python example

#import library to do http requests:
import urllib2

#import easy to use xml parser called minidom:
from xml.dom.minidom import parseString
#all these imports are standard on most modern python implementations

#download the file:
file = urllib2.urlopen('http://www.somedomain.com/somexmlfile.xml')
#convert to string:
data = file.read()
#close file because we dont need it anymore:
file.close()
#parse the xml you downloaded
dom = parseString(data)
#retrieve the first xml tag (<tag>data</tag>) that the parser finds with name tagName:
xmlTag = dom.getElementsByTagName('tagName')[0].toxml()
#strip off the tag (<tag>data</tag>  --->   data):
xmlData=xmlTag.replace('<tagName>','').replace('</tagName>','')
#print out the xml tag and data in this format: <tag>data</tag>
print xmlTag
#just print the data
print xmlData

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