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     xml.etree.ElementTree -- XML Manipulation API
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     .. module:: xml.etree.ElementTree
         :synopsis: XML Manipulation API
     
     :Purpose: Generate and parse XML documents
     :Python Version: 2.5 and later
     
     The ElementTree library was contributed to the standard library by
     Fredrick Lundh.  It includes tools for parsing XML using event-based
     and document-based APIs, searching parsed documents with XPath
     expressions, and creating new or modifying existing documents.
     
     .. note::
     
       All of the examples in this section use the Python implementation of
       ElementTree for simplicity, but there is also a C implementation in
       :mod:`xml.etree.cElementTree`.
     
     .. toctree::
     
        parse
        create
     
     
     .. seealso::
     
         `xml.etree.ElementTree <http://docs.python.org/library/xml.etree.elementtree.html>`_
             The standard library documentation for this module.
     
         `ElementTree Overview <http://effbot.org/zone/element-index.htm>`_
             Fredrick Lundh's original documentation and links to the
             development versions of the ElementTree library.
     
         `Process XML in Python with ElementTree <http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-matters28/>`_
             IBM DeveloperWorks article by David Mertz.
     
         `lxml.etree <http://codespeak.net/lxml/>`_
             A separate implementation of the ElementTree API based on libxml2 with more complete XPath support.