I'm about 98% done building an app for parsing a certain network vendor's XML dumps, and need some help with group objects I know I should have used etree, but minidom seemed too straight forward ...

You can extract any of these files from the ODF file with the read () method on the zip object to get it as a very long string. Once read, you can modify, view and write the whole string to disk as an ...

1) Query using XML based on some value like the 'id' or 'displayName' and have access to all of the information (i.e. the Application, Properties, Links, etc. sections).