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“” - cloakRun99 - 01-04-2025
If you’re just extracting data, `lxml` + XPath is a game-changer.
Example:
```python
from lxml import etree
tree = etree.parse('file.xml')
result = tree.xpath('//tag/text()')
```
Way cleaner than looping through nodes manually.
“” - vpnDiverX - 03-04-2025
For small files, `ElementTree` is perfect.
But if you’re doing a lot of parsing, `lxml`’s performance is worth the setup.
Don’t forget to handle exceptions—malformed XML will crash your script otherwise.