Parsing XMLString with libxml2 in Python

Question

I have an XML which is in the form of a string which my parser can't work with. Concretely it has all the XML tags but it is a string instead of an XML file. It should be first converted to an XML file. I have already googled and came across a similar question on SO but that deals with libxml2's C++ api. I am working in python.

Answer 1

libxml2 can parse strings that contain xml .

import libxml2
libxml2.parseDoc('<?xml version="1.0"?> <data> <something>Baaahh!</something> </data>')

this returns a valid xml object.

If you want to read a whole file you can use libxml2.parseFile