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My wife is a writer, which today means she uses a word processing program. It's a sophisticated, powerful program—OpenOffice.org Writer—but occasionally it won't do something that she wants it to do.

3) This XML is actually fairly large, so I'd like to iterparse () instead of parse (), but I can't get that to work.

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