Outline for November 17, 2021

Reading: §12, 13
Due: Homework 4, due November 22, 2021

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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ECS 235A, Computer and Information Security Version of November 18, 2021 at 2:21PM

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