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I want to use an XML file containing a collection of objects (it is a GML file for GIS applications) as input in models i am developping. Herefore, i want to transform the objects in my XML file into real Python objects so i can use them easily. Is there an easy way of doing this, i.e. transforming the XML collection into a database of objects ?

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  • Could you provide some input/output example? It should be possible to parse the xml and create the structure you're looking for. Commented Feb 22, 2012 at 11:26
  • Well, i have the GML file and its XSD, e.g. like schemas.opengis.net/gml/2.1.2/feature.xsd and i am looking for an automated way in Python to make from this XSD a class type and from the GML (which is a collection of features) a list of objects. (But even parsing the GML seems to result in some problems ...) Commented Feb 22, 2012 at 11:36
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    Have you looked at lxml.objectify? Commented Feb 22, 2012 at 11:40

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You might try generateDS. generateDS homepage. Last time I used it was a couple of years ago, and it had some limitations then---there were some valid xsd features that it would not handle. Looks like it has been evolving since then; those limitations may have disappeared, or they may not apply to your situation anyway.

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This indeed looks like what i am looking for, but i'm struggeling to make it work
It works ! Thank you, dis indeed is absolutly what i needed, automatically generating python code classes from my XML documents.
It was very helpful for me a couple of years ago. Big thanks to Dave Kuhlman.

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