1 .. _markup: 2 3 ********************************** 4 Structured Markup Processing Tools 5 ********************************** 6 7 Python supports a variety of modules to work with various forms of structured 8 data markup. This includes modules to work with the Standard Generalized Markup 9 Language (SGML) and the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), and several interfaces 10 for working with the Extensible Markup Language (XML). 11 12 It is important to note that modules in the :mod:`xml` package require that 13 there be at least one SAX-compliant XML parser available. Starting with Python 14 2.3, the Expat parser is included with Python, so the :mod:`xml.parsers.expat` 15 module will always be available. You may still want to be aware of the `PyXML 16 add-on package <http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/>`_; that package provides an 17 extended set of XML libraries for Python. 18 19 The documentation for the :mod:`xml.dom` and :mod:`xml.sax` packages are the 20 definition of the Python bindings for the DOM and SAX interfaces. 21 22 23 .. toctree:: 24 25 htmlparser.rst 26 sgmllib.rst 27 htmllib.rst 28 xml.rst 29 xml.etree.elementtree.rst 30 xml.dom.rst 31 xml.dom.minidom.rst 32 xml.dom.pulldom.rst 33 xml.sax.rst 34 xml.sax.handler.rst 35 xml.sax.utils.rst 36 xml.sax.reader.rst 37 pyexpat.rst 38
