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ElementTree is a Python library for creating and parsing XML.

ElementTree is a Python library for creating and parsing XML.

from xml.etree import ElementTree

An alternative implementation on top of libxml and libxslt, with an expanded API is lxml, see the tag.

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How to create with Python's cElementTree

I have tried to use the answer in this question, but can't make it work: How to create "virtual root" with Python's ElementTree? Here's my code: import xml.etree.cElementTree as ElementTree from StringIO import StringIO s = '
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SyntaxError: prefix 'a' not found in prefix map

I'm trying to create a function which counts words in pptx document. The problem is that I can't figure out how to find only this kind of tags: Some Text When I try to: print xmlTree.findall('.//a:t'), it returns SyntaxError: prefix…
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Python and ElementTree: return "inner XML" excluding parent element

In Python 2.6 using ElementTree, what's a good way to fetch the XML (as a string) inside a particular element, like what you can do in HTML and javascript with innerHTML? Here's a simplified sample of the XML node I am starting with:
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Converting a Python XML ElementTree to a String

I need to convert an XML ElementTree to a String after altering it. It's the toString part that isn't working. import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET tree = ET.parse('my_file.xml') root = tree.getroot() for e in root.iter('tag_name'): e.text =…
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Parse all the xml files in a directory one by one using ElementTree

I'm parsing XML in python by ElementTree import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET tree = ET.parse('try.xml') root = tree.getroot() I wish to parse all the 'xml' files in a given directory. The user should enter only the directory name and I should be…
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How to add an element to xml file by using elementtree

I've a xml file, and I'm trying to add additional element to it. the xml has the next structure : What I'm looking for is : but actually I'm getting next xml : …
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ElementTree's iter() equivalent in Python2.6

I have this code with ElementTree that works well with Python 2.7. I needed to get all the nodes with the name "A" under "X/Y" node. from xml.etree.ElementTree import ElementTree verboseNode = topNode.find("X/Y") nodes =…
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How to preserve namespaces when parsing xml via ElementTree in Python

Assume that I've the following XML which I want to modify using Python's ElementTree: ... I'm doing some modification on the XML file like this: import xml.etree.ElementTree as…
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"XML or text declaration not at start of entity: line 2, column 0" when calling ElementTree.parse

ElementTree.parse() fails in the simple example below with the error xml.etree.ElementTree.ParseError: XML or text declaration not at start of entity: line 2, column 0 The XML looks valid and the code is simple, so what am I doing…
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Can't install elementtree with pip

Trying to install elementtree package with pip. Getting the following error: (taximachine_env)vagrant@dev-gm:/opt/taxi/taxiconsole$ pip install elementtree -vvv Collecting elementtree Getting page https://pypi.python.org/simple/elementtree/ …
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Why does ElementTree reject UTF-16 XML declarations with "encoding incorrect"?

In Python 2.7, when passing a unicode string to ElementTree's fromstring() method that has encoding="UTF-16" in the XML declaration, I'm getting a ParseError saying that the encoding specified is incorrect: >>> from xml.etree import ElementTree >>>…
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How to correctly parse utf-8 xml with ElementTree?

I need help to understand why parsing my xml file* with xml.etree.ElementTree produces the following errors. *My test xml file contains arabic characters. Task: Open and parse utf8_file.xml file. My first try: import xml.etree.ElementTree as…
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Parse XML with (X)HTML entities

Trying to parse XML, with ElementTree, that contains undefined entity (i.e.  ) raises: ParseError: undefined entity   In Python 2.x XML entity dict can be updated by creating parser (documentation): parser =…
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Python: Ignore xmlns in elementtree.ElementTree

Is there a way to ignore the XML namespace in tage names in elementtree.ElementTree? I try to print all technicalContact tags: for item in root.getiterator(tag='{http://www.example.com}technicalContact'): print item.tag, item.text And I get…
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lxml convert element to elementtree

The following test code reads a file, and using lxml.html generates the leaf nodes of the DOM/Graph for the page. However, I'm also trying to figure out how to get the input from a "string". Using: lxml.html.fromstring(s) doesn't work, as this…
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