Bernard Lebel wrote: > Hello, > > With ElementTree, can you search a tag under an Element by not only > specifying the tag label, but also some tag attribute values? That > would be in the case where I have several tags with the same label but > with various attribute values. > > Right now I do a loop over every tag of the same label, then test the > attributes: > > for oTag in oElement.findall( 'taglabel' ): > if oTag.attrib[ 'value' ] == 'xx': do something
I think that is the best you can do. Or switch to something with full XPath support. FLASH: I just found PDIS XPath which evaluates XPath expressions against ElementTree trees! http://pdis.hiit.fi/pdis/download/ > I'm looking for something a bit like BeautifulSoup, like: > > oTag = oElement.find( 'taglabel', { 'value' : 'xx' } ) > > > Btw in case you wonder, I don't use BeautifulSoup because somehow it > takes 20-30 seconds to parse a 2000-line xml file, and I don't know > why. ElementTree is proving very performing. Would you send me privately a copy of your file and your code that reads it with BS? I'm curious why this takes so long. Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
