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Georg Brandl116aa622007-08-15 14:28:22 +00001:mod:`xml.etree` --- The ElementTree API for XML
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4.. module:: xml.etree
5 :synopsis: Package containing common ElementTree modules.
6.. moduleauthor:: Fredrik Lundh <fredrik@pythonware.com>
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Georg Brandl116aa622007-08-15 14:28:22 +00009The ElementTree package is a simple, efficient, and quite popular library for
10XML manipulation in Python. The :mod:`xml.etree` package contains the most
11common components from the ElementTree API library. In the current release,
12this package contains the :mod:`ElementTree`, :mod:`ElementPath`, and
13:mod:`ElementInclude` modules from the full ElementTree distribution.
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Christian Heimes5b5e81c2007-12-31 16:14:33 +000015.. XXX To be continued!
Georg Brandl116aa622007-08-15 14:28:22 +000016
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18.. seealso::
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20 `ElementTree Overview <http://effbot.org/tag/elementtree>`_
21 The home page for :mod:`ElementTree`. This includes links to additional
22 documentation, alternative implementations, and other add-ons.
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