tekion <tek...@gmail.com> writes: > On Oct 3, 2:09 pm, de...@web.de (Diez B. Roggisch) wrote: >> tekion <tek...@gmail.com> writes: >> > On Oct 2, 5:32 am, de...@web.de (Diez B. Roggisch) wrote: >> >> tekion <tek...@gmail.com> writes: >> >> > All, >> >> > I have the following xml tag: >> >> > <event> >> >> > <resource_access> >> >> > <action>httpRequest</action> >> >> > <httpurl>HTTP://cmd.wma.ibm.com:80/</httpurl> >> >> > <httpmethod>GET</httpmethod> >> >> > <httpresponse>200</httpresponse> >> >> > </resource_access> >> >> > </event> >> >> >> > I am interested in: >> >> > <action>httpRequest</action> >> >> > <httpurl>HTTP://cmd.wma.ibm.com:80/</httpurl> >> >> > <httpmethod>GET</httpmethod> >> >> > <httpresponse>200</httpresponse> >> >> > as well as the upper layer tag. How do I get at the nest tag listed >> >> > above? Thanks. >> >> >> What is the "upper layer tag"? And what do you actually want to "get"? >> >> The text-values? Or do you want to just create a document that just >> >> consists of the resource_access tag? >> >> >> Then this should help: >> >> >> from xml.etree.ElementTree import * >> >> >> doc = """ >> >> <event> >> >> <resource_access> >> >> <action>httpRequest</action> >> >> <httpurl>HTTP://cmd.wma.ibm.com:80/</httpurl> >> >> <httpmethod>GET</httpmethod> >> >> <httpresponse>200</httpresponse> >> >> </resource_access> >> >> </event> >> >> """ >> >> >> doc = fromstring(doc) >> >> >> resource_access = doc.find("resource_access") >> >> print tostring(resource_access) >> >> >> Diez >> >> > Diez, >> > This is the sample format from the doc. I the whole log file has this >> > xml formated beginning and ending in the event tag. Is this something >> > ElemenTtree can handle or is it better to user XSLT? Thanks. >> >> Handle *what*? Can it read it? Yes. Can it extract data from it? >> Yes. You still haven't said what you actually *want* with all this. >> >> Diez > > I wan to get the value of these tags: > > <httpurl>HTTP://cmd.wma.ibm.com:80/</httpurl> > <httpmethod>GET</httpmethod> > <httpresponse>200</httpresponse>
from xml.etree.ElementTree import * doc = """ <event> <resource_access> <action>httpRequest</action> <httpurl>HTTP://cmd.wma.ibm.com:80/</httpurl> <httpmethod>GET</httpmethod> <httpresponse>200</httpresponse> </resource_access> </event> """ doc = fromstring(doc) for resource_access in doc.findall("resource_access"): print resource_access.find("httpurl").text > > You asked for what the upper layer tags are. The upper layer tags I > am referring for below tags are any tag that is above it. > > <httpurl>HTTP://cmd.wma.ibm.com:80/</httpurl> > <httpmethod>GET</httpmethod> > <httpresponse>200</httpresponse> > > IE, for the upper upper are: <action>httpRequest</action> and <event> > tags. That's not true. action is on the same level as the others. And what you you want to "get" from the upper layer tags? Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list