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

This code it work to transform to df this type of Excel XML file:

import pandas as pd
from xml.sax import ContentHandler, parse

# Reference https://goo.gl/KaOBG3
class ExcelHandler(ContentHandler):
    def __init__(self):
        self.chars = [  ]
        self.cells = [  ]
        self.rows = [  ]
        self.tables = [  ]
    def characters(self, content):
        self.chars.append(content)
    def startElement(self, name, atts):
        if name=="Cell":
            self.chars = [  ]
        elif name=="Row":
            self.cells=[  ]
        elif name=="Table":
            self.rows = [  ]
    def endElement(self, name):
        if name=="Cell":
            self.cells.append(''.join(self.chars))
        elif name=="Row":
            self.rows.append(self.cells)
        elif name=="Table":
            self.tables.append(self.rows)

excelHandler = ExcelHandler()
parse('feds200628.xls', excelHandler)
df1 = pd.DataFrame(excelHandler.tables[0][10:], columns=excelHandler.tables[0][9])
print df1.head()

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