xml file parsing in python

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xml file :

<global> <rtmp> <fcsapp> <password> <key>hello123</key> <key>check123</key> </password> </fcsapp> </rtmp> </global>

python code : To obtain all the key tag values. hello123 check123

using xml.etree.ElementTree for streams in xmlRoot.iter('global'): xpath = "/rtmp/fcsapp/password" tag = "key" for child in streams.findall(xpath): resultlist.append(child.find(tag).text) print resultlist

The output obtained is [hello123], but I want it to display both ([hello123, check123])

How do I obtain this?

Use code formatting (the {} button), not quoting... (Then you don't have to mangle your XML). — Wooble
– Wooble, Commented Dec 16, 2013 at 14:11

James Mills · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-16 14:15:31Z

Using lxml and cssselect I would do it like this:

>>> from lxml.html import fromstring >>> doc = fromstring(open("foo.xml", "r").read()) >>> doc.cssselect("password key") [<Element key at 0x7f77a6786cb0>, <Element key at 0x7f77a6786d70>] >>> [e.text for e in doc.cssselect("password key")] ['hello123 \n ', 'check123 \n ']

Alexander Zhukov · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-16 14:17:53Z

With lxml and xpath You can do it in the following way:

from lxml import etree xml = """ <global> <rtmp> <fcsapp> <password> <key>hello123</key> <key>check123</key> </password> </fcsapp> </rtmp> </global> """ tree = etree.fromstring(xml) result = tree.xpath('//password/key/text()') print result # ['hello123', 'check123']

Palash Kumar · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-16 14:17:51Z

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try beautifulsoup package "https://pypi.python.org/pypi/BeautifulSoup"

answered Dec 16, 2013 at 14:17

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dreamer · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-16 18:25:15Z

using xml.etree.ElementTree

for streams in xmlRoot.iter('global'): xpath = "/rtmp/fcsapp/password" tag = "key" for child in streams.iter(tag): resultlist.append(child.text) print resultlist

have to iter over the "key" tag in for loop to obtain the desired result. The above code solves the problem.

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