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Sree Ram
Sree Ram

Reputation: 859

python element tree xml parsing

I am using Python element tree to parse xml file

lets say i have an xml file like this ..

<html>
<head>
    <title>Example page</title>
</head>
<body>
    <p>hello this is first paragraph </p>
    <p> hello this is second paragraph</p>
</body>
</html>

is there any way i can extract the body with the p tags intact like 

desired= "<p>hello this is first paragraph </p> <p> hello this is second paragraph</p>"

Upvotes: 0

Views: 592

Answers (3)

Alastair McCormack
Alastair McCormack

Reputation: 27744

A slightly different way to @DavidAlber, where the children could easily be selected:

from xml.etree import ElementTree

tree = ElementTree.parse("example.xml")
body = tree.findall("/body/p")

result = []
for elem in body:
     result.append(ElementTree.tostring(elem).strip())

print " ".join(result)

Upvotes: 0

David Alber
David Alber

Reputation: 18111

The following code does the trick.

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

root = ET.fromstring(doc)  # doc is a string containing the example file
body = root.find('body')
desired = ' '.join([ET.tostring(c).strip() for c in body.getchildren()])

Now:

>>> desired
'<p>hello this is first paragraph </p> <p> hello this is second paragraph</p>'

Upvotes: 1

Adem &#214;ztaş
Adem &#214;ztaş

Reputation: 21466

You can use lxml library, lxml

So, this code will help you.

import lxml.html

htmltree = lxml.html.parse('''
<html>
<head>
<title>Example page</title>
</head>
 <body>
<p>hello this is first paragraph </p>
<p> hello this is second paragraph</p>
</body>
</html>''')
p_tags = htmltree.xpath('//p')
p_content = [p.text_content() for p in p_tags]

print p_content

Upvotes: 0

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