Comments on: Elegant XML parsing using the ElementTree Module

By: Peter Downs

Peter Downs — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 06:02:08 +0000

I find it useful to define a parsing function before I do anything with XML. The parsing function will return an array of all of the elements it has found, whether they are stored as element.text or element.attrib. Here it is:

def parse_XML(element):
a = []
for subelement in element:
if subelement.text is None:
a.append(subelement.attrib)
else:
a.append(subelement.text)
return a

sorry about indentation.

By: Aaron Calderon

Aaron Calderon — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:34:44 +0000

This xml reading/writing tutorial is very helpful. I think I can use it to work with the Wine tutorial series that you have.

Thanks again for your grate work.

By: nml

nml — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:05:08 +0000

Really cool tutorial

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By: Raja

Raja — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 06:36:07 +0000

Awesome tutorial. thanks

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By: Ankur

Ankur — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 04:39:14 +0000

An elegantly written article. Thank you Sir !

By: Eoin

Eoin — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:24:03 +0000

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By: georgeblunt

georgeblunt — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:59:53 +0000

Yes, I know about lxml.. but lxml doesn’t come with the standard python package (which isn’t such a huge problem, i know, but in my opinion it would be great to have xpath functionality in the standard python libs, just for convenience. The XPath API isn’t such an out-of-the-world feature for an xml library)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:57:31 +0000

If you want to use xpath just try lxml. You can use same ElementTree api and also have access to full xpath support querying.