REALLY simple xml reader

[Simon Pickles]

Hi

Can anyone suggest a really simple XML reader for python? I just want to
be able to do something like this:

xmlDoc = xml.open("file.xml")
element = xmlDoc.GetElement("foo/bar")

.... to read the value of:

<foo>
<bar>42</bar>
</foo>


Thanks

Simon

 

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Hi

Can anyone suggest a really simple XML reader for python? I just want to
be able to do something like this:

xmlDoc = xml.open("file.xml")
element = xmlDoc.GetElement("foo/bar")

... to read the value of:

<foo>
<bar>42</bar>
</foo>

Since python2.5, the ElementTree module is available in the standard
lib. Before 2.5, you can of course install it.

Your code then would look like this:

import xml.etree.ElementTree as et


doc = """
<foo>
<bar>42</bar>
</foo>
"""

root = et.fromstring(doc)

for bar in root.findall("bar"):
print bar.text



Diez

 

[Mark Tolonen]

Hi

Can anyone suggest a really simple XML reader for python? I just want to
be able to do something like this:

xmlDoc = xml.open("file.xml")
element = xmlDoc.GetElement("foo/bar")

... to read the value of:

<foo>
<bar>42</bar>
</foo>


Thanks

Simon

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--Mark

 

[Stefan Behnel]

What about :

doc = """
<moo>
<bar>99</bar>
</moo>
<foo>
<bar>42</bar>
</foo>
"""

That's not an XML document, so what about it?

Stefan

 

[Ricardo Aráoz]

Since python2.5, the ElementTree module is available in the standard
lib. Before 2.5, you can of course install it.

Your code then would look like this:

import xml.etree.ElementTree as et


doc = """
<foo>
<bar>42</bar>
</foo>
"""

root = et.fromstring(doc)

for bar in root.findall("bar"):
print bar.text



Diez

What about :

doc = """
<moo>
<bar>99</bar>
</moo>
<foo>
<bar>42</bar>
</foo>
"""