Re: python and parsing an xml file

[Stefan Behnel]

Matt Funk, 21.02.2011 23:07:

thank you for your advice.
I am running into an issue though (which is likely a newbie problem):

My xml file looks like (which i got from the internet):
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<catalog>
    <book id="bk101">
       <author>Gambardella, Matthew</author>
       <title>XML Developer's Guide</title>
       <genre>Computer</genre>
       <price>44.95</price>
       <publish_date>2000-10-01</publish_date>
       <description>An in-depth look at creating applications
       with XML.</description>
    </book>
</catalog>

Then i try to access it as:

from lxml import etree
from lxml import objectify

inputfile="../input/books.xml"
parser = etree.XMLParser(ns_clean=True)
parser = etree.XMLParser(remove_comments=True)

Change that to

parser = objectify.makeparser(ns_clean=True, remove_comments=True)

root = objectify.parse(inputfile,parser)

Change that to

root = objectify.parse(inputfile,parser).getroot()

Stefan

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