On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Balachandran Sivakumar <benignb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have to parse an xml file, get to a spefic node, and > set it to a different value and write it back to the file. What is the > best way to do it ? The xml file can be a few hundred lines(with > proper formatting). [...] > But I don't really know how to update an entry and write it back to > the xml file ? Can someone suggest some ways please ? Also, it is > necessary that it should be XPath based. Thanks [...]
To update an element, just assign a value to it, e.g., myelem.text = "New value" You can then save the modified XML to a new file. Please see http://infohost.nmt.edu/tcc/help/pubs/pylxml/web/modifying.html That same tutorial, http://infohost.nmt.edu/tcc/help/pubs/pylxml/web/index.html , also describes various ways of addressing elements. This is also a useful tutorial: http://lxml.de/tutorial.html Regards, Gora _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
