python - how to write empty tree node as empty string to xml file

Question

I want to remove elements of a certain tag value and then write out the .xml file WITHOUT any tags for those deleted elements; is my only option to create a new tre

Answer 1

The trick here is to find the parent (the country node), and delete the neighbor from there. In this example, I am using ElementTree because I am somewhat familiar with it:

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

if __name__ == '__main__':
    with open('debug.log') as f:
        doc = ET.parse(f)

        for country in doc.findall('.//country'):
            for neighbor in country.findall('neighbor'):
                country.remove(neighbor)

        ET.dump(doc)  # Display