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Re: XML Binding

From dieter <dieter@handshake.de>
Subject Re: XML Binding
Date 2015-09-09 10:20 +0200
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Palpandi <palpandi111@gmail.com> writes:

> Is it better to use pyxb than lxml?
>
> What are the advantages of lxml and pyxb?

"pyxb" has a different aim than "lxml".

"lxml" is a general purpose library to process XML documents.
It gives you an interface to the document's resources (elements,
attributes, comments, processing instructions) on a low level
independ from the document type.

"pyxb" is different: there, you start with an XML schema description.
You use "pyxb" to generate Python bindings for this schema.
With such a binding generated, "pyxb" can parse XML documents
following a known XML schema into the corresponding binding.
The binding objects expose child (XML) elements and (XML) attributes as
attributes of the binding object. Thus, the Python interface
(as defined by the binding) is highly dependent on the type (aka XML schema)
of the document.


I use "lxml" for either simple XML processing or when the XML documents
are not described by an XML schema. I use "pyxb" when the XML documents
has an associated complex schema and the processing is rather complex.

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XML Binding Palpandi <palpandi111@gmail.com> - 2015-09-03 09:54 -0700
  Re: XML Binding Burak Arslan <burak.arslan@arskom.com.tr> - 2015-09-03 22:54 +0300
    Re: XML Binding Palpandi <palpandi111@gmail.com> - 2015-09-03 22:21 -0700
      Re: XML Binding Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-09-04 15:36 +1000
      Re: XML Binding Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-09-04 08:46 +0200
      Re: XML Binding Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-09-04 08:54 +0200
  Re: XML Binding Lorenzo Sutton <lorenzofsutton@gmail.com> - 2015-09-04 10:11 +0200
  Re: XML Binding Palpandi <palpandi111@gmail.com> - 2015-09-07 06:42 -0700
    Re: XML Binding dieter <dieter@handshake.de> - 2015-09-09 10:20 +0200
    Re: XML Binding Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2015-09-09 11:44 +0200
    Re: XML Binding dieter <dieter@handshake.de> - 2015-09-10 08:30 +0200
  Re: XML Binding harirammanohar159@gmail.com - 2015-09-09 02:00 -0700
  Re: XML Binding Michele Simionato <michele.simionato@gmail.com> - 2015-09-10 23:47 -0700

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