Am Sonntag, 28. Oktober 2012 03:27:14 UTC+1 schrieb jann...@gmail.com:
> Hello all,
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> I am new to Python and have a problem with the behaviour of the xml parser.
> Assume we have this xml document:
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> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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> <bibliography>
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> <entry>
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> Title of the first book.
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> </entry>
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> <entry>
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> <coauthored/>
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> Title of the second book.
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> </entry>
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> </bibliography>
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> If I now check for the text of all 'entry' nodes, the text for the node with
> the empty element isn't shown
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> import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
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> tree = ET.ElementTree(file='test.xml')
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> root = tree.getroot()
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> resultSet = root.findall(".//entry")
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> for r in resultSet:
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> print (r.text)
thanks a lot for your answer. as I am looking for a tool to teach using xml in
programming it is a pity that this modul implements a very idiosyncratic view
on xml data, but dom and sax are out there too, so I will look at them.
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