On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 03:32:48PM +0100, Robert Rawlins - Think Blue wrote:
> Hello Guys,
>
>
>
> I'm looking for some help building a function which can parse some XML for
> me using ElementTree. The document is of a very consistent format and I've
> copied an example of the document below.
>
Here are some suggestions.
Import ElementTree or Lxml:
from xml.etree import ElementTree as etree
Or:
from lxml import etree
Parse the string:
root = etree.fromstring(xmlstring)
Iterate over the nodes in the tree:
for node in root.getiterator():
Check for the "attribute" tag:
if node.tag == 'attribute':
# But, use something like the following if there is a namespace.
#if node.tag == '{%s}attribute' % (node.nsmap['mynamespace'], ):
Get the "id" attribute (or None is there isn't one):
charid = node.get('id', None)
Enough to get you started?
Dave
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