# Simple xml parsing question **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** scripting, ignition81\ **Created:** [April 22, 2024, 7:17pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/simple-xml-parsing-question/89232 "2024-04-22T19:17:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2024, 7:27pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/simple-xml-parsing-question/89232/4 "2024-04-22T19:27:00Z")
Related: > [@Download file as xml](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/download-file-as-xml/84363/2): > > Good morning Gerardo, Yes, but you'll have to generate the XML piece by piece. I would use my helper script module for this kind of work: [xml.py](https://www.automation-pros.com/ignition/xml.py) (Place it in your project script library.) Make a somewhat generic row-to-xml function in a project library, perhaps like so: rowTemplate = """\\\""" # Produce downloadable XML bytes from a dictionary of column values. def rowToXML(valuesDict): dom = xml.strToDoc(rowTemplate) rowNode = dom.getElementsByTagName("row")[0] for k, … I highly recommend using my wrappers around java's native XML handlers. Edit: This might be more helpful: > [@New conversion from python parsing to Java](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/new-conversion-from-python-parsing-to-java/49202): > > Here is the current block of code where I am using the parse with jython solution that tends to lock up every so often. import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET #read the xml filef for device in importDevices: filePath = '%s/%s.xml' % (rootPath,device) #print 'reading %s' % filePath deviceStart = system.date.now() #logger.info('Before: tree = ET.parse(filePath)') tree = ET.parse(filePath) #logger.info('After: tree = ET.parse(filePath)') xmlFile = tree.getroot() I made the f… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/simple-xml-parsing-question/89232)._