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13.4.1 Example

The following program defines three handlers that just print out their arguments.

import xml.parsers.expat # 3 handler functions def start_element(name, attrs): print 'Start element:', name, attrs def end_element(name): print 'End element:', name def char_data(data): print 'Character data:', repr(data) p = xml.parsers.expat.ParserCreate() p.StartElementHandler = start_element p.EndElementHandler = end_element p.CharacterDataHandler = char_data p.Parse("""<?xml version="1.0"?> <parent id="top"><child1 name="paul">Text goes here</child1> <child2 name="fred">More text</child2> </parent>""")

The output from this program is:

Start element: parent {'id': 'top'}
Start element: child1 {'name': 'paul'}
Character data: 'Text goes here'
End element: child1
Character data: '\012'
Start element: child2 {'name': 'fred'}
Character data: 'More text'
End element: child2
Character data: '\012'
End element: parent