I'm about 98% done building an app for parsing a certain network vendor's XML dumps, and need some help with group objects I know I should have used etree, but minidom seemed too straight forward to ...

My wife is a writer, which today means she uses a word processing program. It's a sophisticated, powerful program—OpenOffice.org Writer—but occasionally it won't do something that she wants it to do.

Object databases tend to store XML in a manner that approximates the document object model (DOM). That creates a persistent implementation of the various nodes that make up an XML document. This ...