Python version 2.7: XML ElementTree: How to iterate through certain elements of a child element in order to find a match

Question

I\'m a programming novice and only rarely use python so please bear with me as I try to explain what I am trying to do :)

I have the following XML:

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Answer 1

You could use a CssSelector to get the nodes you want from the Patient element:

from lxml.cssselect import CSSSelector
visitSelector = CSSSelector('Visit')
visits =  visitSelector(child)

you can do the same to get the patientCode Tag and the SWOL28 tag then you can access and modifiy the text of the elements using element.text