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Recipe 275370: Extract text from XML document, II

Alternative way of extracting text from a WF XML source.

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from sgmllib import SGMLParser

class XMLJustText ( SGMLParser ) :
    def handle_data ( self, data ) :
        print data

XMLJustText  ( ) . feed ( 
"<items><item>text 1</item><item>text 2</item></items>" 
)

Discussion

Warning: I have not experimented with this approach sufficiently to know anything about it.

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