Navigate to the Appendix Data<\/em> section and download the XML file to follow along. Then, move this file to the current working directory.<\/em><\/p>\n We can accomplish this task by one of the following options:<\/p>\n To install these libraries, navigate to an IDE<\/a> terminal. At the command prompt ( Hit the Hit the If the installations were successful, a message displays in the terminal indicating the same.<\/p>\n Feel free to view the PyCharm installation guide for the required libraries.<\/p>\n Add the following code to the top of each code snippet. This snippet will allow the code in this article to run error-free.<\/p>\n A clean, compact way to read an XML file is to use Python’s Beautiful Soup<\/a> library. A “go-to” tool for web scraping and XML data extraction.<\/p>\n Output (snippet)<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"\ud83d\udcac\"](\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/13.1.0\/72x72\/1f4ac.png\")
Question<\/strong>: How would we read in ax XML file and format the output?<\/p>\n\n
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$<\/code>), execute the code below. For the terminal used in this example, the command prompt is a dollar sign ($<\/code>). Your terminal prompt may be different.<\/p>\n$ pip install pandas<\/pre>\n
<Enter><\/code> key on the keyboard to start the installation process.<\/p>\n$ pip install bs4<\/pre>\n
<Enter><\/code> key on the keyboard to start the installation process.<\/p>\n
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\nimport pandas as pd from bs4 import BeautifulSoup\nimport xml.etree.ElementTree as ET\nimport base64, xml.dom.minidom\nfrom xml.dom.minidom import Node<\/pre>\n
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Note<\/strong>: The additional libraries indicated above do not require installation as they come built-in to Python.<\/p>\n
\nMethod 1: Use Beautiful Soup<\/h2>\n
all_books = BeautifulSoup(open('books.xml'), 'xml')\npretty_xml = all_books.prettify()\nprint(pretty_xml)<\/pre>\n\n
all_books<\/code>.<\/li>\nprettify()<\/code><\/a> method is used to improve the appearance of the output.<\/li>\n