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## 9.7. Segue

OK, that's it for the hard-core XML stuff. The next chapter will continue to use these same example programs, but focus on other aspects that make the program more flexible: using streams for input processing, using `getattr` for method dispatching, and using command-line flags to allow users to reconfigure the program without changing the code.

Before moving on to the next chapter, you should be comfortable doing all of these things:

- Parsing XML documents using `minidom`, searching through the parsed document, and accessing arbitrary element attributes and element children
- Organizing complex libraries into packages
- Converting unicode strings to different character encodings