Comments on: Why Python is useless for serious XML processing http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2004/10/22/why-python-is-useless-for-serious-xml-processing/ Bryan O'Sullivan's blog Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:41:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Derek http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2004/10/22/why-python-is-useless-for-serious-xml-processing/comment-page-1/#comment-240749 Derek Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:05:33 +0000 http://home.serpentine.com/blog/2004/10/22/why-python-is-useless-for-serious-xml-processing/#comment-240749 This is something I have just started looking at: I'm curious if you ever came back to try again or have gone (permanently) down another road? This is something I have just started looking at: I’m curious if you ever came back to try again or have gone (permanently) down another road?

]]> By: William http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2004/10/22/why-python-is-useless-for-serious-xml-processing/comment-page-1/#comment-197502 William Mon, 08 Dec 2008 03:55:42 +0000 http://home.serpentine.com/blog/2004/10/22/why-python-is-useless-for-serious-xml-processing/#comment-197502 In casing you're wondering why there is so much activity on this blog posting, someone recently posted this article to dzone.com. So you have a lot of people seeing your post from 4 years ago and assuming that you're still having this issue now (or perhaps they don't notice the byline or the URL indicating that this blog post was made back in 2004. In casing you’re wondering why there is so much activity on this blog posting, someone recently posted this article to dzone.com. So you have a lot of people seeing your post from 4 years ago and assuming that you’re still having this issue now (or perhaps they don’t notice the byline or the URL indicating that this blog post was made back in 2004.

]]> By: Eric Larson http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2004/10/22/why-python-is-useless-for-serious-xml-processing/comment-page-1/#comment-189947 Eric Larson Fri, 31 Oct 2008 05:12:57 +0000 http://home.serpentine.com/blog/2004/10/22/why-python-is-useless-for-serious-xml-processing/#comment-189947 Another option to consider is Amara. The second version will be released soon and it uses expat internally, which makes it blazingly fast. Also, it doesn't have the libxml/libxslt dependency, which can be a hassle on some occasions. http://xml3k.org/Amara Another option to consider is Amara. The second version will be released soon and it uses expat internally, which makes it blazingly fast. Also, it doesn’t have the libxml/libxslt dependency, which can be a hassle on some occasions.

http://xml3k.org/Amara

]]> By: hoanghung http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2004/10/22/why-python-is-useless-for-serious-xml-processing/comment-page-1/#comment-189352 hoanghung Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:46:54 +0000 http://home.serpentine.com/blog/2004/10/22/why-python-is-useless-for-serious-xml-processing/#comment-189352 Use PHP 5's XMLReader. It is much faster than Python in XML processing Use PHP 5′s XMLReader. It is much faster than Python in XML processing

]]> By: Kai http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2004/10/22/why-python-is-useless-for-serious-xml-processing/comment-page-1/#comment-189309 Kai Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:20:46 +0000 http://home.serpentine.com/blog/2004/10/22/why-python-is-useless-for-serious-xml-processing/#comment-189309 I used the libxml2 XmlTextReader interface (http://xmlsoft.org/xmlreader.html) for some textmining research on the 5GB wikipedia xml file. That was really fine and fast. Another idea for fast xml processing is oracle berkeley xml db. It has a python interface and is free for non commercial use. I used the libxml2 XmlTextReader interface (http://xmlsoft.org/xmlreader.html) for some textmining research on the 5GB wikipedia xml file. That was really fine and fast.

Another idea for fast xml processing is oracle berkeley xml db. It has a python interface and is free for non commercial use.

]]> By: Alec http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2004/10/22/why-python-is-useless-for-serious-xml-processing/comment-page-1/#comment-189207 Alec Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:05:10 +0000 http://home.serpentine.com/blog/2004/10/22/why-python-is-useless-for-serious-xml-processing/#comment-189207 To add on the the ElementTree, I'm pretty sure that it is part of the core as of 2.5 as xml.etree. And yes, doing anything manually with sax is painful, no matter what language you're using. To add on the the ElementTree, I’m pretty sure that it is part of the core as of 2.5 as xml.etree. And yes, doing anything manually with sax is painful, no matter what language you’re using.

]]> By: manatlan http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2004/10/22/why-python-is-useless-for-serious-xml-processing/comment-page-1/#comment-189204 manatlan Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:48:29 +0000 http://home.serpentine.com/blog/2004/10/22/why-python-is-useless-for-serious-xml-processing/#comment-189204 Use LXML, it's, by far, the speedest xml processing available for python. It use libxml2, which is really speed (in the past, it was a lot speeder than msxml !) Use LXML, it’s, by far, the speedest xml processing available for python. It use libxml2, which is really speed (in the past, it was a lot speeder than msxml !)

]]> By: John http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2004/10/22/why-python-is-useless-for-serious-xml-processing/comment-page-1/#comment-189142 John Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:40:17 +0000 http://home.serpentine.com/blog/2004/10/22/why-python-is-useless-for-serious-xml-processing/#comment-189142 I do quite a bit of heavy XML and HTML processing with lxml and it's blazingly fast. Of course the reason it's so fast is that it's using libxml (which is written in C) behind the scenes... but it provides very nice pythonic bindings. Definitely check it out. I do quite a bit of heavy XML and HTML processing with lxml and it’s blazingly fast. Of course the reason it’s so fast is that it’s using libxml (which is written in C) behind the scenes… but it provides very nice pythonic bindings. Definitely check it out.

]]> By: qebab http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2004/10/22/why-python-is-useless-for-serious-xml-processing/comment-page-1/#comment-189126 qebab Mon, 27 Oct 2008 08:53:01 +0000 http://home.serpentine.com/blog/2004/10/22/why-python-is-useless-for-serious-xml-processing/#comment-189126 The cElementTree module, as mentioned already is supposedly the best alternative for this. The cElementTree module, as mentioned already is supposedly the best alternative for this.

]]> By: Suvash http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2004/10/22/why-python-is-useless-for-serious-xml-processing/comment-page-1/#comment-189120 Suvash Mon, 27 Oct 2008 08:17:12 +0000 http://home.serpentine.com/blog/2004/10/22/why-python-is-useless-for-serious-xml-processing/#comment-189120 you should check lxml, if you are looking for performance. you should check lxml, if you are looking for performance.

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