XML

XML is a text-based serial representation of data. It is being replaced by YAML and JSON for better data representational efficiency.

Tutorials

There are a few good XML processing tutorials online.

For Python

• Reading Wikipedia XML Dumps with Python by Jeff Heaton
• Python XML ElementTree

Video Tutorials

• Processing Large XML Wikipedia Dumps that won't fit in RAM in Python without Spark by Heaton
• Python Parsing large xml files