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 ...

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.

Learn how to use Python to reorganize your XML sitemaps and help you isolate indexing problems on your website's most important pages.