Parse xml with lxml - extract element value

Question

Let\'s suppose we have the XML file with the structure as follows.

Answer 1

I would be more direct in your XPath: go straight for the elements you want, in this case datafield.

>>> for df in doc.xpath('//datafield'):
        # Iterate over attributes of datafield
        for attrib_name in df.attrib:
                print '@' + attrib_name + '=' + df.attrib[attrib_name]

        # subfield is a child of datafield, and iterate
        subfields = df.getchildren()
        for subfield in subfields:
                print 'subfield=' + subfield.text

Also, lxml appears to let you ignore the namespace, maybe because your example only uses one namespace?