HTML to XML

[mustfirst]

I'm trying to convert HTML to XML. Then load the XML into a database for data manipulation.
I researched and came to the conclusion that I can use Python to do this. If I'm right I will start learning Python.
Can anyone point me to the right direction so I can speed up the process. I have a programming background.

[Larz60+]

Of course you can do a conversion and then manipulate the results.
A better way is to use Beautifulsoup (python package) or Selenium to extract what you'd like directly from the HTML.
There is a tutorial here for that:
Web-Scraping part-1
Web-Scraping part-2