Python XML Parsing without root

Question

I wanted to parse a fairly huge xml-like file which doesn\'t have any root element. The format of the file is:

Answer 1

lxml.html can parse fragments:

from lxml import html
s = """
 
 



 
"""
doc = html.fromstring(s)
for thing in doc:
    print thing
    for other in thing:
        print other
"""
>>> 




>>>
"""

Courtesy this SO answer

And if there is more than one level of nesting:

def flatten(nested):
    """recusively flatten nested elements

    yields individual elements
    """
    for thing in nested:
        yield thing
        for other in flatten(thing):
            yield other
doc = html.fromstring(s)
for thing in flatten(doc):
    print thing

Similarly, lxml.etree.HTML will parse this. It adds html and body tags:

d = etree.HTML(s)
for thing in d.iter():
    print thing

""" 






"""