Read Data from XML Files
Discover how to read data from XML files into pandas DataFrames. Learn to use the read_xml() function for simple XML files and develop custom Python functions with lxml to process more complex XML trees, enabling efficient extraction and analysis of varied XML data formats.
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XML file format
XML stands for Extensible Markup Language and is adapted from HTML. The XML format was specifically designed to create standardized ways to encode, store, and transport data for web data interchange.
XML is self-descriptive information wrapped in tags and designed to be human and machine-readable. The “Extensible” part of XML means that users can readily add tags to define their own data formats.
Read from XML files
We use the read_xml() function to read data from XML files, which helps to import the XML document ...