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Subject: Re: parsing nested unbounded XML fields with ElementTree
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On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Larry.Martell@gmail.com
<Larry.Martell@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have an XML file that has an element called "Node". These can be nested to any depth and the depth of the nesting is not known to me. I need to parse the file and preserve the nesting. For exmaple, if the XML file had:
>
> <Node Name="A">
>    <Node Name="B">
>       <Node Name="C">
>         <Node Name="D">
>           <Node Name="E">

First off, please clarify: Are there five corresponding </Node> tags
later on? If not, it's not XML, and nesting will have to be defined
some other way.

Secondly, please get off Google Groups. Your initial post is
malformed, and unless you specifically fight the software, your
replies will be even more malformed, to the point of being quite
annoying. There are many other ways to read a newsgroup, or you can
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ChrisA