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Harish
Harish

Reputation: 25

Iterate through XML child of child tags in Python using elementtree

Unable to iterate through child tags within a child tag

have tried to find all child tags through root.iter() and iterate the same. however the output is not generated in the hierarchy of the tags

for child in root.iter():
    child_tag = child.tag

    for child in root.findall('.//' + child_tag):          
        txt = "tag1/" + "tag2/" + str(child_tag) + "/" + str(child)
        print(txt)

Expected output:

tag1
tag1/tag2
tag1/tag2/tag3
tag1/tag2/tag3/tag4
tag1/tag2/tag3/tag5
tag1/tag2/tag3/tag5/tag6

xml file details:

<tag1>
    <tag2>
        <tag3>
                <tag4>         </tag4>
                <tag5>  
                    <tag6>        </tag6>      
                </tag5>
        </tag3>
    </tag2>
</tag1>

Output received:

tag1
tag1/tag2
tag1/tag2/tag3
tag1/tag2/tag3/tag4
tag1/tag2/tag3/tag5
tag1/tag2/tag5/tag6

--- not as per hierarchy

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1412

Answers (1)

CristiFati
CristiFati

Reputation: 41116

Listing [Python 3.Docs]: xml.etree.ElementTree - The ElementTree XML API.

Hardcoding node tags ("tag1", "tag2": why only those and not others?) is a sign that something is (terribly) wrong.
Here's a simple variant that handles each XML node recursively.

code00.py:

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import sys
from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET


def iterate(node, path=""):
    if path:
        current_path = path + "/" + node.tag
    else:
        current_path = node.tag
    print("{0:s}".format(current_path))
    for child in node:
        iterate(child, path=current_path)


def main():
    xml_file_name = "./file00.xml"
    tree = ET.parse(xml_file_name)
    root = tree.getroot()
    iterate(root)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    print("Python {0:s} {1:d}bit on {2:s}\n".format(" ".join(item.strip() for item in sys.version.split("\n")), 64 if sys.maxsize > 0x100000000 else 32, sys.platform))
    main()
    print("\nDone.")

Output:

[cfati@CFATI-5510-0:e:\Work\Dev\StackOverflow\q057906081]> "e:\Work\Dev\VEnvs\py_064_03.07.03_test0\Scripts\python.exe" code00.py
Python 3.7.3 (v3.7.3:ef4ec6ed12, Mar 25 2019, 22:22:05) [MSC v.1916 64 bit (AMD64)] 64bit on win32

tag1
tag1/tag2
tag1/tag2/tag3
tag1/tag2/tag3/tag4
tag1/tag2/tag3/tag5
tag1/tag2/tag3/tag5/tag6

Done.

Upvotes: 2

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