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TMikonos
TMikonos

Reputation: 369

lxml tree.find is not working

I am having an issue with the command find and it is not working. However, in theory it should be working.

Let's say that I have this xml file:

<?xml version="1.0"> 
<pxml name="es">
   things here
</pxml

I want to find the element pxml to add there an attribute. So I am using this code:

from lxml import etree as et
lang = 'de'
tree = et.parse("file.xml")
root = tree.getroot()
txml_element = root.find('//pxml')
txml_element.attrib['language'] = lang

I get the following error message:

SyntaxError: cannout use absolute path on element

Also, if i don't do the tree.getroot and I use the find in the tree I always a None element. What do I am missing?

I don't understand why am I getting this message error. Also if use only root.find('pxml') it returns None.

However, using xpath I get a list of the elements, it works:

lang = 'de'
tree = et.parse("file.xml")
root = tree.getroot()
txml_elements = root.xpath('//pxml')
for element in txml_elements:
    element.attrib['language'] = lang
    print(element.attrib)
#print (et.tostring(tree))

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2438

Answers (1)

hemn
hemn

Reputation: 383

Try to use dot:

root.find('.')

If you need only pxml element, check for tag

txml_element.tag

https://repl.it/IzNt/2

Upvotes: 1

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