I am working on a server application which receives data over a TCP socket in an XMPP-like XML format, i.e. every child of the <root> element essentially represents one separate request (stanza). The connection is closed as soon as </root> is received. I do know that I must use a stream parser like SAX, somehow. Though, for convenience, I'd prefer to have a tree-like interface to access each stanza's child elements. (The data sent with every request is not large so I think it makes sense to read each stanza as a whole.)

What's the best way to realize that in Python (preferably v3)?

This is the code I'd like to build it in. Feel free to point me in a totally different direction to solve this issue.

import socketserver
import settings

class MyServer(socketserver.ThreadingMixIn, socketserver.TCPServer):
    pass

class MyRequestHandler(socketserver.StreamRequestHandler):
    def handle(self):
        pass

if __name__ == '__main__':
    server = MyServer((settings.host, settings.port), MyRequestHandler)
    server.serve_forever()