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     2 .. _markup:

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     4 **********************************

     5 Structured Markup Processing Tools

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

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

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

    11 for working with the Extensible Markup Language (XML).

    12 

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

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

    15 2.3, the Expat parser is included with Python, so the :mod:`xml.parsers.expat`

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

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

    18 extended set of XML libraries for Python.

    19 

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

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

    22 

    23 

    24 .. toctree::

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    26    htmlparser.rst

    27    sgmllib.rst

    28    htmllib.rst

    29    pyexpat.rst

    30    xml.dom.rst

    31    xml.dom.minidom.rst

    32    xml.dom.pulldom.rst

    33    xml.sax.rst

    34    xml.sax.handler.rst

    35    xml.sax.utils.rst

    36    xml.sax.reader.rst

    37    xml.etree.elementtree.rst

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    39 .. seealso::

    40 

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

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

    43       bundled with Python.

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