Hi ppl,

We are developing an open source project for fun as well as a for learning. To give you a brief idea of our project - its a client server application installer on XML as the repository and python is used for parsing and searching for elements. You may find the details here : http://code.google.com/p/ulair

Now, though I went through the working and parsing of XML in various Python ref material, but I just had a few queries like :

1) How does one get the exact value of an element down a tree like say : <abc><xyz><pqr>100</pqr></xyz></abc>

So in the above case say the value 100, though it could be a string as well. We require the exact value, not its representation in XML or ASCII value as explained by you in some books.

2) Is there any efficient way of searching for elements in a huge XML tree in python ?

3) Is there any way in which one can change the tag names or incorporate new elements ?

4) We are thinking about using QT for creating our frontend, how does python integrate with it ? If you could suggest any other GUI Designer for python then it would be great.

I know some of these questions are ignorant. However it would be a great help if you could give us some insight by answering them or pointing us to some other refrences. If you would like to know anything more about our project then please do let me know. Thank you so much once again. rgds Sameer

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