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Asked: 2026-06-03T18:32:28+00:00

I am writing code to parse XML (actually, KML) files and load them to

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I am writing code to parse XML (actually, KML) files and load them to a database. I would like to run the code under either Python or IronPython.

Unfortunately, I find that xml.dom.minidom will not load under IronPython because it has a dependency on expat.py, which is not implemented on IronPython. I also tried using try / except blocks to get an XML document object from either platform. Although I can obtain a document gracefully running under either platform the internal implementations of the documents are too different to write code that runs under either platform.

Is there an XML parsing strategy that is compatible across Python and IronPython?

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  1. Editorial Team

    According to this webpage, you may be able to get xml.dom.minidom running (if the only missing part is expat.py):

    “Download FePy’s pyexpat.py, copy it to IronPython’s Lib/xml/parsers subdirectory, and rename it to expat.py.”

    Related: http://ironpython.codeplex.com/workitem/20023

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