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user1660130
user1660130

Reputation: 43

Reading an xml response and printing a required data in python

I have got an xml data as a output for my code. And Now I wanted to get an element value from the obtained xml data. I have used following commands

data1 = r1.read()
       dom = xml.dom.minidom.parseString(data1)
       conference=dom.getElementsByTagName('totalResults')
       print conference.node value

But I was unable get the value.

My xml code will be

<first:totalresults>100</first:totalresults>

and so on

So now I want the value 100 to be printed So can any one help me in solving this. I have been trying for this since last night please any one kindly help me.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 103

Answers (1)

halflings
halflings

Reputation: 1538

I'd recommend you'd use etree for an easier XML parsing :

from lxml import etree

myFile = open("file.xml", 'r')
tree = etree.parse(myFile)
data = tree.xpath('//ns:totalresults', namespaces={'ns': 'http://api.com'})
print data

Upvotes: 1

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