This article highlights the basic structure of ODF files, some internals of the underlying XML files and shows how to use Python to read the contents to perform a simple search for keywords. The code ...

How to Read Multiple Files in a Loop in Python. Python is a general-purpose programming language for Web and desktop development. Python works well on both of these platforms because of its ...

If the XML file is very large, check out the lxml website for how to use the target and feed interfaces--it's not as hard as you might think, and they work very efficiently.

I hope this introduction has been useful, but it's only the beginning of how Python/XML can work with ODF files. For example, I had an OpenDocument spreadsheet, and I wanted to add up the values of ...

An XML element attribute is a tag property that adds additional information to XML data. You can use the Java JDOM classes to read the XML data including the element's attribute property.