Parsing XMLString with libxml2 in Python

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I have an XML which is in the form of a string which my parser can't work with. Concretely it has all the XML tags but it is a string instead of an XML file. It should be first converted to an XML file. I have already googled and came across a similar question on SO but that deals with libxml2's C++ api. I am working in python.

This question appears to be off-topic because it is (a) based on the false premise that you need to write XML to a file; and (b) writing to a file is not specific to XML. — Marcin
– Marcin, Commented May 15, 2014 at 15:53

AndiDog · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-16 07:55:14Z

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libxml2 can parse strings that contain xml.

import libxml2
libxml2.parseDoc('<?xml version="1.0"?> <data> <something>Baaahh!</something> </data>')

this returns a valid xml object.

If you want to read a whole file you can use libxml2.parseFile

edited May 16, 2019 at 7:55

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