Parsing a file with multiple xmls in it

Question

Is there a way to parse a file which contains multiple xmls in it?

eg., if I have a file called stocks.xml and within the stocks.xml i have more than one xml content

Answer 1

So you have a file containing multiple XML documents one after the other? Here is an example which strips out the PIs and wraps the data in a root tag to parse the whole thing as a single XML document:

import re
import lxml.etree

re_strip_pi = re.compile('<\?xml [^?>]+\?>', re.M)
data = '' + open('stocks.xml', 'rb').read() + ''
match = re_strip_pi.search(data)
data = re_strip_pi.sub('', data)
tree = lxml.etree.fromstring(match.group() + data)
for prod in tree.xpath('//PRODUCT'):
    print prod