elementtree

I want to retrieve a legacy xml file, manipulate and save it. Here is my code: from xml.etree import cElementTree as ET NS = "{http://www.somedomain.com/XI/Traffic/10}" def fix_xml(filename): f = ET.parse(filename) root = f.getroot() eventlist = root.findall("%(ns)Event" % {'ns':NS }) xpath = "%(ns)sEventDetail/%(ns)sEventDescription" % {'ns':NS } for event in eventlist: desc = event.find(xpath) desc.text = desc.text.upper() # do some editting to the text. ET.ElementTree(root, nsmap=NS).write("out.xml", encoding="utf-8") shorten_xml("test.xml") The file I load contains: xmlns="http://www

Hey. I want to have a config.xml file for settings in a Python web app. I made car.xml manually. It looks like this: <car> <lights> <blinkers>off</blinkers> </lights> </car> Now I want to see whether the blinkers are on or off, using xml.etree.ElementTree . import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET tree = ET.parse('car.xml') blinkers = tree.findtext('lights/blinkers') print blinkers > off Now I want to turn the blinkers on and off, how can I do this? XML is a rather poor way of storing configuration settings. For one, XML is not exactly human friendly in the context of settings. In the Python

I have a question on same module as I posted last time in below post. Seems like, it is quite difficult to deal with XML parsing. With elementTree having very mearge documentation. I have a below template_XML file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Tailoring xmlns="http://checklists.nist.gov/xccdf/1.2" id="xccdf_org.open-scap_tailoring_example"> <status>incomplete</status> <version time="2013-01-15T16:00:00.000+02:00">1.0</version> <Profile id="PlaceHolder"> <title>Tailoring for py_test</title> <select idref="xccdf_rule_name" selected="true"/> </Profile> </Tailoring> And a below sample

I am using elementtree.ElementTree.iterparse to parse a large (371 MB) xml file. My code is basically this: outf = open('out.txt', 'w') context = iterparse('copyright.xml') context = iter(context) dummy, root = context.next() for event, elem in context: if elem.tag == 'foo': author = elem.text elif elem.tag == 'bar': if elem.text is not None and 'bat' in elem.text.lower(): outf.write(elem.text + '\n') elem.clear() #line A root.clear() #line B My question is two-fold: First - Do I need both A and B (see code snippet comments)? I was told that root.clear() clears unnecessary children so memory

If I have an xml file like this: <root> <item> <prop>something</prop> </item> <test> <prop>something</prop> </test> <test2> <prop>something</prop> </test2> </root> I can use xmlTree.getroot().findall("item") to get all of the 'item' elements. How would I get all of the 'item' OR 'test' elements? I want something like: xmlTree.getroot().findall("item or test") I didn't see anything like this in the examples in the documentation. Any ideas? Since ElementTree from stdlib provides only limited xpath support , you can use | xpath OR operator only if you are using lxml : from lxml import etree as ET

I'm writing some XML with element tree. I'm giving the code an empty template file that starts with the XML declaration: <?xml version= "1.0"?> when ET has finished making its changes and writes the completed XML its stripping out the declarion and starting with the root tag. How can I stop this? Write call: ET.ElementTree(root).write(noteFile) According to the documentation : write(file, encoding="us-ascii", xml_declaration=None, method="xml") Writes the element tree to a file, as XML. file is a file name, or a file object opened for writing. encoding 1 is the output encoding (default is US

I have this code with ElementTree that works well with Python 2.7. I needed to get all the nodes with the name "A" under "X/Y" node. from xml.etree.ElementTree import ElementTree verboseNode = topNode.find("X/Y") nodes = list(verboseNode.iter("A")) However, when I tried to run it with Python 2.6, I got this error. ionCalculateSkewConstraint.py", line 303, in getNodesWithAttribute nodes = list(startNode.iter(nodeName)) AttributeError: _ElementInterface instance has no attribute 'iter' It looks like that Python 2.6 ElementTree's node doesn't have the iter(). How can I implement the iter() with