Outline for November 10, 2022

Reading: §12, 13
Assignments:Homework 3, due November 10, 2022

1. JSON [json-ex.py]
   1. What it is
   2. json.loads
   3. json.dumps

2. What is XML?
   1. Tree structure
   2. Elements, tags, attributes, attribute values
   3. Example: sample1.xml

3. Python and XML [basic-xml.py]
   1. xml.etree.ElementTree
   2. Parsing the tree from file input (ET.parse()), from a string (ET.fromstring())
   3. Referring to elements
   4. Accessing tag names, attributes
   5. Finding nodes in the tree
   6. Dumping, writing the tree
   7. Removing an element and its descendants
   8. Changing an element’s attribute
   9. Setting attributes

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MHI 289I, Programming in Health Informatics Version of November 15, 2022 at 11:13AM

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