Robert Rawlins wrote:
> I have little to no experiance with element tree and I'm struggling to
> find a way to parse the details from the XML document (attached) into
> my application. Essentialy I'm looking to take the following document
> and turn it into a dict of tuples, each dict element defines a
> datasource with the key to the element being the 'name' which is
> defined in the XML and then the value of the pair is a tuple which
> contains the details of the datasource, like the host and port etc.
Here's another way to walk an ElementTree. This one creates a hash of hashes
which are normally more useful than tuples for property lookups.
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
tree = ET.ElementTree(file = "foo.xml")
d = {}
for ds in tree.findall("datasource"):
name = ds.find('name').text
d[name] = {}
print 'datasource =', name
for i in ds.findall('*'):
#for i in ds.getiterator(): # also works
if i.tag in ('datasource', 'name'):
continue
print ' ',i.tag, "=", i.text
d[name][i.tag] = i.text
print
print d
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