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Ycs
Ycs

Reputation: 1

How to get value from XML tag in Python

I have an XML file, I need to extract all text inside the feature tag in Python

<person>
    <text id="1">
    <title>
      student
    </title>
    <feature>
       xxxx
      <name>yyyy</name>
      zzzz
      <country>dddd</country>
      ffff
    </feature>

my code is this: 

 for person in tree.iter():
    for text in person:
        for feature in text:
            if feature.tag=="feature":
                print(feature.text)

It just shows me the "xxxx" but my ideal answer is xxxx yyyy zzzz dddd ffff

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3647

Answers (1)

jcoppens
jcoppens

Reputation: 5440

Of course there's a line missing at the end (</person>). and you should comment which library you are using, if any

If you use a library to 'parse' the xml into a tree structure, say xml.etree.ElementTree, you fairly easily extract tags, attributes and even text by the query functions of the library. You can do so in the order you want, and create a result in you desired format.

xml.etree.ElementTree is part the Python standard library. Have a look at the Python ElementTree documentation. There are plenty examples.

Upvotes: 1

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