As more and more Web sites begin using XML for their content, it's increasingly important for Web developers to know how to parse XML data and convert it into different formats. That's where the ...

As for regexes: lxml does have some extensions that use regexes, using the EXSLT namespace (bottom of that section). Or, you can write a simple Python function to parse the field however you like.

Using Digester Digester is often used to parse XML configuration files. In the following examples, we have an XML configuration file that contains information used to build a DataSources pool.