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Questions - elementtree

How can I conditionally get values from XML w/ElementTree?

I have XML and I need to extract some values, and if these values don't exists I want "N/A". <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <DEF xmlns:xsi="http://w...
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defekas17

python

elementtree

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I see at least two things you can change to remove if-blocks. A more specific X-Path I see this "if type matches do everything, else skip" branch: appl_type = node4.attrib.get('TYPE') if app...
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Zach Young

python ElementTree - find value of child&#39;s attribute based on parent&#39;s attribute

Here is a example of what's in my XML file. <parent uniqueID="1000" name="Bob Ross" > <child atrribute1="value" </parent> The user is going t...
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bozogs

python

python-3.x

xml

elementtree

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Typical I work it out after posting on here - here is the answer for anyone who stumbles across this question Using the Xpath you just add another / on as it's already looking at the parent. root.find...
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bozogs

Python xml.etree.ElementTree &#39;findall()&#39; method does not work with several namespaces

I am trying to parse an XML file with several namespaces. I already have a function which produces namespace map – a dictionary with namespace prefixes and namespace identifiers (example in the code)....
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Myklebost

python

xml

elementtree

xml-namespaces

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Based on Jan Jaap Meijerink's answer and mzjn's comments under the question, the solution is to insert namespace prefixed in the XML path. This can be done by inserting a wildcard {*} as mzjn's commen...
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Myklebost

Is there a way to feed downloaded xml continuously into XMLPullParser?

In my python script, I'm downloading some XML from a url. It contains the a list of elements within the root element. It really takes quite some time to do so and since the documentation of etree sugg...
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CodeSpoof

python

elementtree

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You could try using urllib.request.urlopen from the standard library. Like open, you can use this as a context manager; with urllib.request.urlopen("http://www.python.org/") as uf: while...
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Roland Smith

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