On 10/11/06, Asrarahmed Kadri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am trying to parse XML documents using elementtree.
> I have just started with it. Can somebody help me with how to select nodes
> with a particular atribute set to some value. For example, I have the
> following file. Now I want to access the founder element of the company
> whose attribute is set to 'ndtv'. Can somebody help me with this?
Here's some code to get you started:
>>> from elementtree import ElementTree
>>> tree = ElementTree.parse('sample.xml')
# Make a list of all <company> elements.
>>> companies = tree.findall('company')
# Make a dict, mapping the name attrib of <company> elements to the
elements themselves.
>>> companiesByName = dict((c.get('name'), c) for c in companies)
# Access the founder element in the ndtv company.
>>> ndtvFounder = companiesByName['ndtv'].find('founder')
I notice that sometimes, your <founder> element contains text, and
sometimes it contains other elements (<one> and <two>). This will
make extracting founder information a bit fiddly.. You might want to
consider changing the structure -- perhaps:
<company name='foo'>
<founders>
<founder>Bill Gates</founder>
<founder>Steve Jobs</founder>
<founder>Larry Wall</founder>
</founders>
</company>
That way, you could do:
>>> founderElements = companiesByName['ndtv'].findall('founder')
>>> founders = [f.text for f in founderElements]
and that would give you the founder names in a list, regardless of
whether you had one or many.
HTH!
--
John.
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