How to open this XML file to create dataframe in Python?

Question

Does anyone have a suggestion for the best way to open the xml data on the site below to put it in a dataframe (I prefer working with pandas) in python? The file is on the

Answer 1

I would export the XLS formatted file to a CSV file (using a freely available program like Gnumeric or LibreOffice, or if you have it, Excel), and then read the CSV file into pandas. I know this is not exactly an answer to your final question, but parsing XML is an overly complicated solution to what you're trying to do.

Regarding parsing XML in Python, the lxml library is my favorite library to use. I find using the XPath query language together with an lxml parser to be the best route.