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Structured Markup Processing Tools

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Python supports a variety of modules to work with various forms of structured

data markup.  This includes modules to work with the Standard Generalized Markup

Language (SGML) and the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), and several interfaces

for working with the Extensible Markup Language (XML).

It is important to note that modules in the :mod:`xml` package require that

there be at least one SAX-compliant XML parser available. Starting with Python

2.3, the Expat parser is included with Python, so the :mod:`xml.parsers.expat`

module will always be available. You may still want to be aware of the `PyXML

add-on package <http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/>`_; that package provides an

extended set of XML libraries for Python.

The documentation for the :mod:`xml.dom` and :mod:`xml.sax` packages are the

definition of the Python bindings for the DOM and SAX interfaces.

.. toctree::

   htmlparser.rst

   sgmllib.rst

   htmllib.rst

   pyexpat.rst

   xml.dom.rst

   xml.dom.minidom.rst

   xml.dom.pulldom.rst

   xml.sax.rst

   xml.sax.handler.rst

   xml.sax.utils.rst

   xml.sax.reader.rst

   xml.etree.elementtree.rst

.. seealso::

   `Python/XML Libraries <http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/>`_

      Home page for the PyXML package, containing an extension of :mod:`xml` package

      bundled with Python.