Use with XML?

[ryanwclark1]

I will preface this by saying I am exploring the library and I'm not a current user and have only skimmed the documentation. Does awkward have a straight forward approach for handling XML? I found the from json/parquet/arrow functions and although I didn't see an explicit from_xml didn't know if someone with more experience with the library could point me in the right direction. Thank you in advance.

[jpivarski]

It currently doesn't, though XML is a natural way to express nestedness relationships. You haven't missed anything in the docs, though.

You might want to consider building Awkward Arrays from XML using ak.ArrayBuilder. That's how the JSON is implemented (though in C++, but Python should be fast enough if the source format is text).