Parsing a Wikipedia dump

Question

For example using this Wikipedia dump:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=lebron%20james&rvprop=content&redirects=t

Answer 1

There's some information on Python and XML libraries here.

If you're asking is there an existing library that's designed to parse Wiki(pedia) XML specifically and match your requirements, this is doubtful. However you can use one of the existing libraries to traverse the DOM and pull out the data you need.

Another option is to write an XSLT stylesheet that does similar and call it using lxml. This also lets you make calls to Python functions from inside the XSLT so you get the best of both worlds.