CODEWITHSUNDEEP
pythonxmlelementtree
zooted
zooted

Reputation: 165

Having some issues with python XML parsing

I'm new to parsing xml files with Python. Could I get a little help on this one, if you dont mind.

Here is a snippet of my xml doc: 

<xxxxx>

  <xxxx name="xxxxx">
    <xxxxx value="xxxxx"/>
    <xxxxx value="xxxxxxxxxxx"/>

    <xxxx>

      <xxxxx>
        <xxxx value="ReadWrite"/>
        <Type value="XXXXX"/>
      </xxxxx>

I just need to get the User name field. through out the file.

Here is my code that I have been working on: 

import xml.etree.ElementTree as etree

xmlD = etree.parse("c:/Python27/doc.xml")
root = xmld.getroot()

for child in root:
    for children in child:
        print (children.txt)
        print("\n")

I'm not a expert, just wondering if anyone has any ideas on how I could get that information. Any help is appreciated.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 52

Answers (1)

senshin
senshin

Reputation: 10360

Once you have your root element, you can find all your <User> elements using the XPath selector './/User' ("select all User elements found anywhere beneath the current element"), and then loop over them and get their name attributes.

>>> [user.get('name') for user in root.findall('.//User')]
['admin']

Upvotes: 3

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