ps python wrote:
> Kent and Dany,
> Thanks for your replies.
>
> Here fromstring() assuming that the input is in a kind
> of text format.
Right, that is for the sake of a simple example.
>
> what should be the case when I am reading files
> directly.
>
> I am using the following :
>
> from elementtree.ElementTree import ElementTree
> mydata = ElementTree(file='00001.xml')
> iter = root.getiterator()
>
> Here the whole XML document is loaded as element tree
> and how should this iter into a format where I can
> apply findall() method.
Call findall() directly on mydata, e.g.
for process in mydata.findall('//biological_process'):
print process.text
The path //biological_process means find any biological_process element
at any depth from the root element.
Kent
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