1.. _markup: 2 3********************************** 4Structured Markup Processing Tools 5********************************** 6 7Python supports a variety of modules to work with various forms of structured 8data markup. This includes modules to work with the Standard Generalized Markup 9Language (SGML) and the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), and several interfaces 10for working with the Extensible Markup Language (XML). 11 12It is important to note that modules in the :mod:`xml` package require that 13there be at least one SAX-compliant XML parser available. Starting with Python 142.3, the Expat parser is included with Python, so the :mod:`xml.parsers.expat` 15module will always be available. You may still want to be aware of the `PyXML 16add-on package <http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/>`_; that package provides an 17extended set of XML libraries for Python. 18 19The documentation for the :mod:`xml.dom` and :mod:`xml.sax` packages are the 20definition 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