SAX or/and DOM?

[highend3djojan-]

I need to create/modify and parse an xml on different button clicks in
the same applicn. Which method should I choose? May I use xml.sax to parse, and xml.dom.minidom
to modify? Or should I use any one for both, since its a single applicn
(No need to import both) ? Please advice.

[debug_dom]

You can use any combination of python standard libraries to parse and write if you so wish, I have found minidom and xml.dom sufficient for both reading and writing xml files.

[highend3djojan-]

What about the performance in both cases? (My XML is not too large.)

[debug_dom]

i haven't done any speed tests of writing/reading xml using the different libraries/methods (i'm sure they are available in more xml-centric circles online). if the file is small as you say I'd imagine that the speed difference won't be
appreciable.

[joojaa]

For big files sax is obviously more efficient, since it dont need to lead the whole xml file in. Offcourse if you need to trasform the stuff much then its another matter

[highend3djojan-]

yea.. thnx.