Reputation: 91
I don't know how to XPath the Element in XML.
I mean, XML:
<General>
<Task>
<Startup value="some value" />
<Shutdown value="some value" />
</Task>
<Reset>
<Startup value="some value2" />
<Shutdown value="some value2" />
</Reset>
</General>
I'm trying to reach Startup and Shutdown tags by one line code:
for SActStartup in nXML.xpath('//[$ActionType]/Startup',ActionType=ActionType):
print SActStartup.get('value')
What I am missing here?
XPathEvalError: Invalid expression
Upvotes: 1
Views: 352
Reputation: 880987
$ActionType
needs to be replaced by some string -- perhaps the value of the variable ActionType
?:
for val in nXML.xpath('//{ActionType}/Startup/@value'.format(ActionType=ActionType)):
stdin, stdout, stderr = dssh.exec_command(val)
Upvotes: 2