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Python is the fastest, most productive tool for processing XML. This is the first book to cover XML development with Python, in-depth. XML expert Sean McGrath introduces each of Python's key features, with practical examples demonstrating exactly how to leverage Python in XML development. Install Python and its XML package; then discover the new Pyxie open source project, which provides powerful XML processing libraries for Python. Master XML processing tasks such as stripping tags and reporting on XML document structure. Learn basic Python control structures, functions, data structures, and object techniques; then process XML using regular expressions; event-driven and tree-driven techniques. XML Processing With Python also includes hands-on, practical chapters on SAX and DOM support in Python. The CD-ROM contains complete Python distributions for Windows and Linux, plus extensive source code.
From the Back Cover
- Breakthrough techniques for building XML applications — fast!
- Includes a detailed Python tutorial
- Learn about DOM and SAX application development with Python
- Exclusive coverage of the new Pyxie XML processing library
- CD-ROM includes Python and Pyxie distributions for Windows NT and Linux—plus powerful utilities and lots of working code
"XML processing is the newest required skill for webmasters and application developers. The Python language and Sean McGrath's book make it fun to learn and easy to do."
— Charles F. Goldfarb
When it comes to XML processing, Python is in a league of its own.
If you're doing XML development without Python, you're wasting time! Python offers outstanding productivity — especially in the areas that matter most to XML developers, such as XML parsing, DOM/SAX implementations, string processing, and Internet APIs.
And now there's Pyxie — the new open source library that makes Python XML processing even easier and more powerful. In XML Processing with Python, top XML developer Sean McGrath delivers the hands-on explanations and examples you need to get results with Python and Pyxie fast — even if you've never used them before!
- Install Python and the Pyxie XML package
- Learn the fundamentals of Python: control structures, classes, nested lists, dictionaries, and regular rexpresions
- Process XML with regular expression-driven, event-driven, and tree-driven techniques
- Understand Python's support for DOM and SAX APIs
- Explore the power of Python/XML through worked examples of GUI development, database integration, and an XML query-by-example implementation.
Elegant, easy, powerful and fun, Python helps you build world-class XML applications in less time than you ever imagined. If you know XML, one book has all the techniques, code, and tools you'll need to process it: XML Processing with Python.
CD-ROM INCLUDED The accompanying CD-ROM contains everything you need to develop XML applications with Python — including
- complete Python distributions for Windows and Linux
- the Pyxie open-source libraries
- powerful utility programs
- an extensive library of sample source code tested on both Windows NT and Linux
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