Extracting text from XML using python

Question

I have this example xml file

  
  Welcome to Chapter 1



        

Answer 1

For working (navigating, searching, and modifying) with XML or HTML data, I found Beautiful library very useful. For installation problem or detailed information, click on link.

To find Attribute (tag) or multi-attribute values:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
data = """




PALS SOCIETY OF 
CANADA
13479 77 AVE

"""

soup = BeautifulSoup(data, "lxml")
page_tag = soup.find_all('page')
details_tag = page_tag[0].find_all('text')
details_tag_count = len(details_tag)
for iter_text in range(details_tag_count):
    print("Text : ", details_tag[iter_text].text)
    print("Left tag : ", details_tag[iter_text].get("left"))

Output:

Text :  PALS SOCIETY OF CANADA
Left tag :  135
Text :  13479 77 AVE
Left tag :  None