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.. _markup:
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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
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data markup. This includes modules to work with the Standard Generalized Markup
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Language (SGML) and the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), and several interfaces
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for working with the Extensible Markup Language (XML).
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It is important to note that modules in the :mod:`xml` package require that
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there be at least one SAX-compliant XML parser available. Starting with Python
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2.3, the Expat parser is included with Python, so the :mod:`xml.parsers.expat`
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module will always be available. You may still want to be aware of the `PyXML
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add-on package <http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/>`_; that package provides an
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extended set of XML libraries for Python.
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The documentation for the :mod:`xml.dom` and :mod:`xml.sax` packages are the
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definition of the Python bindings for the DOM and SAX interfaces.
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.. toctree::
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2008-05-20 06:08:38 +00:00
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htmlparser.rst
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2007-08-15 14:28:01 +00:00
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sgmllib.rst
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htmllib.rst
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pyexpat.rst
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xml.dom.rst
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xml.dom.minidom.rst
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xml.dom.pulldom.rst
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xml.sax.rst
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xml.sax.handler.rst
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xml.sax.utils.rst
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xml.sax.reader.rst
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xml.etree.elementtree.rst
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