Hello,
I run this script to remove unneeded elements.
For some reason, the input file is left as-is, when I try to get rid of
the <metadata> block; If works as expected when I ignore that element.
Any idea why?
Thank you.
========== INPUT.GPX
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<gpx version="1.1" creator="GPSBabel - http://www.acme.com";
xmlns="http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/1";
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";>
<metadata>
<time>2022-07-21T20:29:48.309Z</time>
<bounds minlat="44.456597300" minlon="3.007453400"
maxlat="45.803699000" maxlon="5.251047400"/>
</metadata>
<wpt lat="45.042569200" lon="5.040802200">
<name>way/4749044</name>
<cmt>landuse=cemetery</cmt>
<desc>landuse=cemetery</desc>
<link href="http://osm.org/browse/way/4749044"/>
</wpt>
</gpx>
========== CLEAN.PY
import lxml.etree as et
from lxml import html
#from xml.etree.ElementTree import XML, fromstring
#import re
import sys
import os
item= "input.gpx"
BASENAME, EXTENSION = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(item))
OUTPUTFILE = f"{BASENAME}.EDITED{EXTENSION}"
PATH=os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(item))
OUTPUT_FULLPATH=f"{PATH}\{OUTPUTFILE}"
parser = et.XMLParser(remove_blank_text=True,strip_cdata=False)
tree = et.parse(item,parser)
root = tree.getroot()
#=========== Remove blocks/elements
#BAD for el in root.iter('cmt','desc','link','metadata'):
#BAD for el in root.iter('metadata','cmt','desc','link'):
#OK
for el in root.iter('cmt','desc','link'):
parent = el.getparent()
parent.remove(el)
#Write modified tree to new file
tree.write(OUTPUT_FULLPATH,
xml_declaration=True,pretty_print=True,encoding='UTF-8')
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