xml.etree Syntax of path?

[Thomas Guettler]

Hi,

I think the documentation of xml.etree is missing something[1].

{{{
find(path)
Finds the first toplevel element with given tag. Same as getroot().find(path). path is the element to look for.
}}}

According to the source etree has limited support for xpath. I think it should be documented
what 'path' should look like to.


[1]
http://docs.python.org/lib/elementtree-elementtree-objects.html

 

[Stefan Behnel]

I think the documentation of xml.etree is missing something[1].

{{{
find(path)
Finds the first toplevel element with given tag. Same as
getroot().find(path). path is the element to look for.
}}}

According to the source etree has limited support for xpath. I think it
should be documented what 'path' should look like to.

You mean like this?

http://effbot.org/zone/element-xpath.htm

Note that the method is called "find()", not "execute_xpath()" or something.
If you want full XPath support, lxml is your friend.

Stefan

 

[Thomas Guettler]

I think the documentation of xml.etree is missing something[1].

{{{
find(path)
Finds the first toplevel element with given tag. Same as
getroot().find(path). path is the element to look for.
}}}

According to the source etree has limited support for xpath. I think it
should be documented what 'path' should look like to.

You mean like this?

http://effbot.org/zone/element-xpath.htm

Yes, since etree is part of the standard library, the documentation
should be there, too. Or at least a link should be provided.

Thomas