saxtract 0.1.0

Python SAX parser to extract xml

SaxTract

Python SAX parser to extract xml

• Free software: MIT license

• Documentation: https://saxtract.readthedocs.io

Features

Uses a SAXParser to maintain a fix memory footprint to parse and ‘extract’ tags from an xml file and push it to an output stream.

With performance tests on a trimmed down to 10k records from the dbpl dataset, SaxTrack ran in about half the time and half the memory footprint

python tests/perf_tests.py --filename test.xml --tag authors --runs 5

SaxTrack run took ~0.05381571219999999s
DOM Parser run took ~0.09159613900000001s

Todo’s

allow xsd/dtd input for validation

Credits

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.

The main parser code was copied from tutorialspoint

History

0.1.0 (2021-02-26)

• First release on PyPI.