How helped me python in this case?
For example i use one script to parse a feed from this url:
"http://www.bnro.ro/nbrfxrates.xml"
The example is simple to understand :
from xml.dom import minidom as dom import urllib def fetchPage(url): a = urllib.urlopen(url) return ''.join(a.readlines()) def extract(webpage): a = dom.parseString(webpage) item2 = a.getElementsByTagName('SendingDate')[0].firstChild.wholeText print "DATA ",item2 item = a.getElementsByTagName('Cube') for i in item: if i.hasChildNodes() == True: eur = i.getElementsByTagName('Rate')[10].firstChild.wholeText dol = i.getElementsByTagName('Rate')[26].firstChild.wholeText print "EURO ",eur print "DOLAR ",dol if __name__=='__main__': webpage = fetchPage("http://www.bnro.ro/nbrfxrates.xml") extract(webpage)The result is:
$python xmlparse.py DATA 2010-02-04 EURO 4.1214 DOLAR 2.9749With "urllib" package I read the url.
The result is parsing with functions from "dom" package.
I used this functions "parseString" and "getElementsByTagName".
More about this functions you will see on:
http://docs.python.org/library/xml.dom.minidom.html
This is all.