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Subject: Re: Parsing XML Using XPATH for Python
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Uzoma Ojemeni <uojemeni@gmail.com> writes:
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One easy option would be to use the "XPath" support in the "lxml"
package -- provided you have not problem with the installation
of external libraries ("libxml2" and "libxslt") and C-extensions ("lxml").