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Apolymoxic
Apolymoxic

Reputation: 836

Get attributes from an XML tag using Python

I am trying to grab the attributes from an XML tag so I can get the correct data and place it in a CSV file

I have attempted to find some answers, but have found nothing definitive other than how to grab that tag itself, or get the attributes using another language.

Here is what a line from the XML file will look like:

<item id="16" class="ItemClass" status="closed" 
opened="2008-07-14T22:31:10Z" closed="2008-07-14T23:45:08Z" 
url="www.google.com"/>

The Tag is "item" The attributes are "id", "class", "status", "opened", "closed", "url"

I can get the tag name, and the items inside the tag (<tag>item inside tag</tag>) using a method found here:

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
import csv

item_head = []
item = []

[...]

name = item.find('item').tag
item_head.append(name)

name = item.find('item').text
item.append(name)

But I want to get that ATTRIBUTES, not the tag.

I can easily write the header of the file since the items will always contain the same information. So, this would look like:

item_head.append('id')
item_head.append('class')
item_head.append('status')
...and so on...

But I don't know how to grab the other information, such as id="16"

End result should be something like this:

id, class, status, opened, closed, url
16, ItemClass, closed, 2008-07-14T22:31:10Z, 2008-07-14T23:45:08Z, www.google.com

Can anyone help me with this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 491

Answers (1)

Tim Fuchs
Tim Fuchs

Reputation: 1191

An xml.etree.ElementTree.Element also has an attrib property, which is a dictionary containing the element’s attributes

>>> item.attrib['id']
'16'

Upvotes: 2

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