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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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ElementTree element index look up

I'm using the xml.etree.ElementTree module to create an XML document with Python 3.1 from another structured document. What ElementTree function can I use that returns the index of an existing sub element?
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Extracting text after tag in Python's ElementTree

Here is a part of XML: Picture of a cat Extracting the tag is easy. Just do: et = xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring(our_xml_string) img = et.find('img') But how to get the text immediately after it (Picture of a…
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How to tell lxml.etree.tostring(element) not to write namespaces in python?

I have a huge xml file (1 Gig). I want to move some of the elements (entrys) to another file with the same header and specifications. Let's say the original file contains this entry with tag :
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How to prevent xml.ElementTree fromstring from dropping commentnode

I have tho following code fragment: from xml.etree.ElementTree import fromstring,tostring mathml = fromstring(input) for elem in mathml.getiterator(): elem.tag = 'm:' + elem.tag return tostring(mathml) When i input the…
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How to keep comments while parsing XML using Python / ElementTree

Currently using Python 2.4.3, and not allowed to upgrade I want to change the values of a given attribute in one or more tags, together with XML-comments in the updated file. I have managed to create a Python script that takes a XML-file as…
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ElementTree Returns Element Instead of ElementTree

I am trying to build an ElementTree from a string. When I do the following (as set out in Python ElementTree: Parsing a string and getting ElementTree instance), I get an Element instead of an ElementTree: companyTree =…
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How to solve TypeError: cannot serialize float Python Elementtree

I got a debugging question. Since I am quite new here, please forgive possible janky walls-of-text. After many hours I finally got elementtree to do what I want, but I cannot output my results, because tree.write("output3.xml") as well as…
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Get parent element after using find method (xml.etree.ElementTree)

I am working with a huge xml-file and try to extract information from different elements. import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET tree = ET.parse('t.xml') root = tree.getroot() To find the elements I use the find method: elm =…
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How can I check attribute existings by Elementtree?

I need to check certain attributes for existence. Like: if "blah-blah-blah" is None: print "there is no such attribute" else: print "The attribute exists"
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lxml etree.iterparse error "TypeError: reading file objects must return plain strings"

I would like to parse an HTML document using lxml. I am using python 3.2.3 and lxml 2.3.4 ( http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#lxml ) I am using the etree.iterparse to parse the document, but it returns the following run-time…
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How can one replace an element with text in lxml?

It's easy to completely remove a given element from an XML document with lxml's implementation of the ElementTree API, but I can't see an easy way of consistently replacing an element with some text. For example, given the following input: input =…
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xml.etree.ElementTree vs. lxml.etree: different internal node representation?

I have been transforming some of my original xml.etree.ElementTree (ET) code to lxml.etree (lxmlET). Luckily there are a lot of similarities between the two. However, I did stumble upon some strange behaviour that I cannot find written down in any…
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Write xml utf-8 file with utf-8 data with ElementTree

I'm trying to write an xml file with utf-8 encoded data using ElementTree like this: #!/usr/bin/python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- …
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Getting all instances of child node using xml.etree.ElementTree

I have the following XML file as input: 0 11 …
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Writing an XML header with LXML

I'm currently writing a script to convert a bunch of XML files from various encodings to a unified UTF-8. I first try determining the encoding using LXML: def get_source_encoding(self): tree = etree.parse(self.inputfile) encoding =…
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