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Head line handler

from xml.sax.handler  import ContentHandler from xml.sax import parse class HeadlineHandler(ContentHandler):     in_headline = 0     def __init__(self, headlines):         ContentHandler.__init__(self)         self.headlines = headlines         self.data = []     def startElement(self, name, attrs):         if name == 'h1':             self.in_headline = 1     def endElement(self, name):         if name == 'h1':             text = ''.join(self.data)             self.data = []             self.headlines.append(text)             self.in_headline = 0     def characters(self, string):         if self.in_headline:             self.data.append(string) headlines = [] parse('website.xml', HeadlineHandler(headlines)) print 'The following <h1> elements were found:' for h in headlines:     print h