What's the best way to parse and manipulate XML in Python? or How do you handle XML data efficiently

Honestly, minidom is outdated—avoid it. Stick with ElementTree or lxml.

For big files, chunk ’em or use SAX parsing. It’s old-school but efficient.

Namespaces suck, but `lxml` makes it *slightly* less awful.

Here’s a cheat sheet for lxml XPath: [link]. Helped me tons!