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Reading and Writing XML Files in Python with Pandas

XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a markup language used to store structured data. The Pandas data analysis library provides functions to read/write data for most of the file types. For example, it includes read_csv() and to_csv() for interacting with CSV files. However, Pandas does not include any...

Naazneen Jatu

Dec 02, 2020·8 min read

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Serialize and Deserialize XML in Java with Jackson

In an increasingly connected ecosystem of software systems, communication between them has become even more paramount. In turn, several technologies have been developed to package data being transferred or shared between these many and different systems. The eXtensible Markup Language, popularly known as XML, is one of the ways to...

Robley Gori

Apr 23, 2019·12 min read

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Introduction to the Python lxml Library

lxml is a Python library which allows for easy handling of XML and HTML files, and can also be used for web scraping. There are a lot of off-the-shelf XML parsers out there, but for better results, developers sometimes prefer to write their own XML and HTML parsers. This is...

Guest Contributor

Apr 10, 2019·9 min read

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Reading and Writing XML in Java

The abbreviation "XML" stands for - eXtensible Markup Language. It has a markup structure similar to HTML and was designed to store and transport data. It defines a set of rules that make it both human- and machine-readable. Despite being a markup language like HTML, XML is commonly...

Vasyl Lagutin

Oct 12, 2018·7 min read

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Reading and Writing XML Files in Python

XML, or Extensible Markup Language, is a markup-language that is commonly used to structure, store, and transfer data between systems. While not as common as it used to be, it is still used in services like RSS and SOAP, as well as for structuring files like Microsoft Office documents. With...

Scott Robinson

Nov 30, 2017·13 min read

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XSLT Explained

XSLT is, in my opinion, similar to the likes of the Mako and Chameleon templating engines. XSLT is mainly used to transform some type of structured markup language (like XML) to another form, like HTML, JSON, or even another XML document. This is done through the use of XPath identifiers...

Scott Robinson

Oct 17, 2013·3 min read