Hello,
*from xml.etree.ElementTree import ElementTree
_/#Parsing:/_
doc = ElementTree()
doc.parse(xmlFile)
*
/_*#Find tag element:*_/
*doc.find('mytag')*
*_/#iteration over tag element:/_
lname = []
for lib in doc.iter('LibTag'):
libName = lib.attrib['name']
lname.append(libName)
*
Regards
Karim
On 01/14/2011 03:55 AM, Terry Carroll wrote:
Does anyone know of a module that can parse out text with XML-like
tags as in the example below? I emphasize the "-like" in "XML-like".
I don't think I can parse this as XML (can I?).
Sample text between the dashed lines::
---------------------------------
Blah, blah, blah
<AAA>
<BING ZEBRA>
<BANG ROOSTER>
<BOOM GARBONZO BEAN>
<BLIP>SOMETHING ELSE</BLIP>
<BASH>SOMETHING DIFFERENT</BASH>
</AAA>
---------------------------------
I'd like to be able to have a dictionary (or any other structure,
really; as long as I can get to the parsed-out pieces) that would look
smoothing like:
{"BING" : "ZEBRA",
"BANG" : "ROOSTER"
"BOOM" : "GARBONZO BEAN"
"BLIP" : "SOMETHING ELSE"
"BASH" : "SOMETHING DIFFERENT"}
The "Blah, blah, blah" can be tossed away, for all I care.
The basic rule is that the tag either has an operand (e.g., <BING
ZEBRA>), in which case the name is the first word and the content is
everything else that follows in the tag; or else the tag has no
operand, in which case it is matched to a corresponding closing tag
(e.g., <BLIP>SOMETHING ELSE</BLIP>), and the content is the material
between the two tags.
I think I can assume there are no nested tags.
I could write a state machine to do this, I suppose, but life's short,
and I'd rather not re-invent the wheel, if there's a wheel laying
around somewhere.
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