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I am writing a server side process in Python that takes XML in a directory and puts it into a database. The XML that is put in the directory is generated from forms that are filled out on remote laptops and sent via HTTP to the server. When we add fields to the form it adds tags to the XML which allows for situations where one XML file will have more or fewer tags than another. How can I make my server side script robust enough to handle these scenarios.
I would do something like mentioned here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9845943/how-to-convert-xml-data-in-to-sqlite-database/9879617#9879617
There is different ways you can apply the logic in the for loop depending on any patterns in the xml, but the idea is the same. This should then let you handle the query much more smoothly depending on which values exist.
Make sure you look at: http://lxml.de/tutorial.html there a lots of great tips with using lxml.