xml-parsing

I'm parsing an XML document that I receive from a vendor everyday and it uses namespaces heavily. I've minimized the problem to a minimal subset here: There are some elements I need to parse, all of which are children of an element with a specific attribute in it. I am able to use lxml.etree.Element.findall(TAG, root.nsmap) to find the candidate nodes whose attribute I need to check. I'm then trying to check the attribute of each of these Elements via the name I know it uses : which concretely here is ss:Name . If the value of that attribute is the desired value I'm going to dive deeper into

I wrote a java app to communicate with a web application using XML. After deployment, I found out it takes too long to parse the XML generated by the web application. For example, it takes about 2 minutes to login; the login information is included in the url. The web application does its processing and responds to the Java app whether the login was successful using XML returned. I used the standard java DOM parsing. Is there a way I can optimize this process so that activities can be faster? Using a standard XML parser a short message should be parsed in about one milli-second. Using a custom

I want to parse the following XML document to resolve all entities in it: <!DOCTYPE doc SYSTEM 'mydoc.dtd'> <doc>&title;</doc> My EntityResolver is supposed to fetch the external entity with the given system ID from the database and then do the resolution, see below for an illustration: private static class MyEntityResolver { public InputSource resolveEntity(String publicId, String systemId) throws SAXException, IOException { // At this point, systemId is always absolutized to the current working directory, // even though the XML document specified it as relative. // E.g. "file:///H:/mydoc.dtd