New to python and all I am doing is parsing a simple xml string. But when I do that, it says ‘No such file or directory’ at Et.parse. I also tried saying Et.parse(Et.fromstring(xmlfile)) but still that leads to a slightly different exception. Please help. import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET thisDict={} def parseXML(xmlfile): tree = ET.parse(xmlfile) root=tree.getroot()… Read More Trying to parse xml throws FileNotFoundError

I would need to retrieve xml element value by searching the element by substring in its name, eg. I would need to get value for all elements in XML file which names contains client. I found a way how to find element with xpath by an attribute, but I haven’t find a way for element… Read More retrieving xml element value by searching the element by substring in its name

I am parsing an XML file and trying to find some XML tags. I’m looking for the tag personalDataRelated and when running it depending on XML file, I either get one of the two values below : <Element ‘personalDataRelated’ at 0x0000020417C86AC0> None What I do next is depending on the value I get previously my… Read More Python XML parsing missing element: 'None' vs None

I am trying to parse through my .xml file using glob and then use etree to add more code to my .xml. However, I keep getting an error when using doc insert that says object has no attribute insert. Does anyone know how I can effectively add code to my .xml? from lxml import etree… Read More 'lxml.etree._ElementTree' object has no attribute 'insert'

I’m trying to do something I thought should be very simple in ElementTree: find elements with specific tag content. The docs give the example: *[tag=’text’]* Selects all elements that have a child named *tag* whose complete text content, including descendants, equals the given *text*. Which seems straightforward enough. However, it does not work as I… Read More Python, ElementTree: Find specific content in XML tag?

I’m trying to use HTML data inside an the text node of an element, but it gets encoded as if it were meant to not be HTML data. Here is an MWE: from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET data = ‘<a href="https://example.com">Example data gained from elsewhere.</a>’ p = ET.Element(‘p’) p.text = data p = ET.tostring(p,… Read More Don't encode Element text object using Python ElementTree

I am trying to delete an element from xml document but I am getting error : Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:/Ashok/del_element_tree_country_2.py", line 25, in <module> tree = ET.ElimentTree(root) AttributeError: module ‘xml.etree.ElementTree’ has no attribute ‘ElimentTree’ My code is: import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET tree = ET.ElementTree(file=’C:\\Ashok\\sample.xml’) root = tree.getroot() DisabledFeatureListForCountry = root.find(‘.//DisabledFeatureListForCountry’) for DisabledFeatureDetails… Read More AttributeError: module 'xml.etree.ElementTree' has no attribute 'ElimentTree'

I am working new in Parsing and have an issue which I dont know how to solve. I have a XML-file (see bellow) and I just want to get the value of the a in preset, which is -1 <global> <setting lid="diagnosticEcgSpeed" val="-1" pers="" res="" unit="mm/s"> <txt id="001041" description="" type="">Geschwindigkeit</txt> <value lid="1" val="-1" text="50"/> <value… Read More XML Parsing with Python – find attribute value in XML file