How to get the XML element text with ElementTree in Python

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I have some xml like this:



   
      
         
            ${VALID USER}
            ${VALID PASSWORD}
         
         
            Opens a new browser instance to given URL.
            
               ${LOGIN URL}
               ${BROWSER}
            
            
               ${BROWSER ID}
            
            Opening browser 'Chrome' to base url 'https://app.com/'
            ${BROWSER ID} = 1
            
         
         
            Maximizes current browser window.
            
         
         
            Sets the delay in seconds that is waited after each Selenium command.
            
               ${DELAY}
            
            
         
         
            Verifies that current page title equals `title`.
            
               Sign In - App
            
            Page title is 'Sign In'.
            
         
         
            Types the given `text` into text field identified by `locator`.
            
               ${LOGIN.txtUser}
               ${username}
            
            Typing text 'test' into text field 'ctl00_content_userNameText'
            
         
         
            Types the given `text` into text field identified by `locator`.
            
               ${LOGIN.txtPassword}
               ${password}
            
            Typing text 'pw' into text field 'ctl00_content_passwordText'
            
         
         
            Types the given `text` into text field identified by `locator`.
            Typing text 'text' into text field 'ctl00_content_Text'
            
         
         
            Clicks a button identified by `locator`.
            
               ${LOGIN.btnLogin}
            
            Clicking button 'ctl00_content_btnLogin'.
            
         
         
            Verifies that current URL is exactly `url`.
            
               ${WELCOME URL}
            
            Current location is 'https://app.com/home.aspx'.
            
         
         
            Verifies that current page title equals `title`.
            
               Welcome to Home
            
            Page title is Welcome to Home'.
            
         
         
      
      
         
            
               
                  
                     Clicks a link identified by locator.
                     
                        ${GLOBAL.lnkAdmin}
                     
                     Clicking link 'link=Admin'.
                     
                  
                  
                     Waits until element specified with `locator` is visible.
                     
                        nav_sub_6
                     
                     
                  
                  
                     Clicks a link identified by locator.
                     
                        ${ADMIN.lnkBuildings}
                     
                     Clicking link 'link=Buildings'.
                     
                  
                  
                     Verifies element identified by `locator` is found on the current page.
                     
                        ctl00_ctl00_MainContent_content_txtBuildingName
                     
                     Current page contains element 'ctl00_ctl00_MainContent_content_txtBuildingName'.
                     
                  
                  
                     Verifies button identified by `locator` is found from current page.
                     
                        ctl00_ctl00_MainContent_content_btnSave
                     
                     Current page contains input 'ctl00_ctl00_MainContent_content_btnSave'.
                     
                  
                  
                     Verifies link identified by `locator` is found from current page.
                     
                        link=Edit
                     
                     Current page contains link 'link=Edit'.
                     
                  
                  
                     Admin
                     Smoke
                     testrailid=627
                  
                  
               
               Verifies the Admin, Setup, Buildings Page

I would like to end up with a dictionary that contains the test names and the test docs. Eg

`{'Verify Buildings Page': 'Verifies the Admin, Setup, Buildings Page'}`

The XML is much larger than this, I cut it short for this example. Here's what I have so far. How do I get the doc element text?

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

tree = ET.parse('../App/Logs/output.xml')

root = tree.getroot()

testName = []
testDoc = []

for test in root.iter('test'):
    testName.append(test.get('name'))
    #somehow get the test doc text here

print testName

alecxe · Accepted Answer

If you were to use lxml.etree, you could've solved it via following-sibling:

import lxml.etree as ET

tree = ET.parse("input.xml")
root = tree.getroot()

result = {
    test.attrib['name']: test.xpath("following-sibling::doc")[0].text
    for test in root.iter('test')
}
print(result)

Which would print:

{'Verify Buildings Page': 'Verifies the Admin, Setup, Buildings Page'}

How to get the XML element text with ElementTree in Python

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