Python & XML: XML Processing with Python

by Christopher A. Jones and Fred L. Drake Jr.

Book Overview

If you are a Python programmer who wants to incorporate XML into your skill set, this is the book for you. Python has attracted a wide variety of developers, who use it either as glue to connect critical programming tasks together, or as a complete cross-platform application development language. Yet, because it is object-oriented and has powerful text manipulation abilities, Python is an ideal language for manipulating XML.

Python & XML...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0596001282
• ISBN13: 9780596001285
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Great coverage with some typos

This book really dvelves into the using XML with Python. The chapter are well laid out and easy to read. There are some typos but nothing that you can't fix. There are some problems using the current XSLT processer that ships with PyXml0.7 but you canstill apply the concepts (I used MSXML's XSLT). The best chapter (last one (:-|) ties all the concepts explained into a Web Service like app. that really shows the real strength of XML

Good Coverage of Python XML possibilities

I really liked this book because I was able to quickly start using XML with Python. I tried to use the package docs, but they were often hard to read, and didn't fill me in on the background stuff I needed to know. The examples in this book were easy to understand, and easy to see how to make practical applications from them. I didn't encounter any typos like the other reader did.