martinblech/xmltodict

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

xmltodict is a Python library that converts XML documents into Python dictionaries and back, making XML manipulation feel like working with JSON. It is built on Expat for speed, supports namespaces, offers a streaming mode for large XML files, and includes a command-line interface.

Use cases

• parse xml files into python dicts
• convert xml to
• process large xml dumps like wikipedia with low memory
• handle xml with namespaces in python
• convert dict back to xml string
• pipe xml data through a command line script

When to choose

• you want simple dict-based access to XML data in Python
• you need to stream very large XML documents without loading them fully into memory
• you want a quick XML-to-JSON style conversion with attribute and namespace support

When to avoid

• you need full XML schema validation or XPath/XSLT support
• you need to preserve comments, processing instructions, or exact document order
• you are working with extremely complex mixed-content XML requiring fine-grained control

Facets

library · maturity stable

parser serialization cli parsers developer-tools files python cli cross-platform xml xml-to-dict streaming-parser expat

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