elementtree

I have Googled my pants off to no avail. What I am trying to do is very simple: I'd like to access the UniqueID value in the following XML contained in a string using ElementTree. from xml.etree.ElementTree import fromstring xml_string = """<ListObjectsResponse xmlns='http://www.example.com/dir/'> <Item> <UniqueID>abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789</UniqueID> </Item> </ListObjectsResponse>""" NS = "http://www.example.com/dir/" tree = fromstring(xml_string) I know that I should use the fromstring method to parse the XML string, but I can't seem to identify how to access the UniqueID. I'm not

I have the following XML document: <Item ID="288917"> <Main> <Platform>iTunes</Platform> <PlatformID>353736518</PlatformID> </Main> <Genres> <Genre FacebookID="6003161475030">Comedy</Genre> <Genre FacebookID="6003172932634">TV-Show</Genre> </Genres> <Products> <Product Country="CA"> <URL>https://itunes.apple.com/ca/tv-season/id353187108?i=353736518</URL> <Offers> <Offer Type="HDBUY"> <Price>3.49</Price> <Currency>CAD</Currency> </Offer> <Offer Type="SDBUY"> <Price>2.49</Price> <Currency>CAD</Currency> </Offer> </Offers> </Product> <Product Country="FR"> <URL>https://itunes.apple.com/fr/tv

I have a folder of XML files that I would like to parse. I need to get text out of the elements of these files. They will be collected and printed to a CSV file where the elements are listed in columns. I can actually do this right now for some of my files. That is, for many of my XML files, the process goes fine, and I get the output I want. The code that does this is: import os, re, csv, string, operator import xml.etree.cElementTree as ET import codecs def parseEO(doc): #getting the basic structure tree = ET.ElementTree(file=doc) root = tree.getroot() agencycodes = [] rins = [] titles =[]

I need to write a dynamic function that finds elements on a subtree of an ATOM xml document. To do so, I've written something like this: tree = etree.parse(xmlFileUrl) e = etree.XPathEvaluator(tree, namespaces={'def':'http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'}) entries = e('//def:entry') for entry in entries: mypath = tree.getpath(entry) + "/category" category = e(mypath) The code above fails to find category. The reason is that getpath returns an XPath without namespaces, whereas the XPathEvaluator e() requires namespaces. Is there a way to either make getpath return namespaces in the path, or allow

bash-3.2$ pip install lxml-2.3.5.tgz Unpacking ./lxml-2.3.5.tgz Running setup.py egg_info for package from file:///Users/apple/workspace/pythonhome/misc/lxml-2.3.5.tgz Building lxml version 2.3.5. Building with Cython 0.17. Using build configuration of libxslt 1.1.27 Building against libxml2/libxslt in the following directory: /usr/local/lib warning: no previously-included files found matching '*.py' Installing collected packages: lxml Running setup.py install for lxml Building lxml version 2.3.5. Building with Cython 0.17. Using build configuration of libxslt 1.1.27 Building against libxml2

I'm parsing an xml file using Python's ElementTree, like that: et = ElementTree(file=file("test.xml")) test.xml starts with a few lines of xml comments. Is there a way to get those comments from et? For ElementTree 1.2.X there is an article on Reading processing instructions and comments with ElementTree ( http://effbot.org/zone/element-pi.htm ). EDIT: The alternative would be using lxml.etree which implements the ElementTree API. A quote from ElementTree compatibility of lxml.etree : ElementTree ignores comments and processing instructions when parsing XML, while etree will read them in and

The standard implementation of ElementTree for Python (2.6) does not provide pointers to parents from child nodes. Therefore, if parents are needed, it is suggested to loop over parents rather than children. Consider my xml is of the form: <Content> <Para>first</Para> <Table><Para>second</Para></Table> <Para>third</Para> </Content> The following finds all "Para" nodes without considering parents: (1) paras = [p for p in page.getiterator("Para")] This (adapted from effbot) stores the parent by looping over them instead of the child nodes: (2) paras = [(c,p) for p in page.getiterator() for c in