> here is a simplified version of an xml file:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <gpx >
> <metadata>
> <author>
> <name>CloudMade</name>
> <email id="support" domain="cloudmade.com" />
> <link href="http://maps.cloudmade.com";></link>
> </author>
> <copyright author="CloudMade">
> <license>http://cloudmade.com/faq#license</license>
> </copyright>
> <time>2011-07-28T07:04:01</time>
> </metadata>
> <extensions>
> <distance>1489</distance>
> <time>344</time>
> <start>Sägerstraße</start>
> <end>Im Gisinger Feld</end>
> </extensions>
> </gpx>
>
> I want to get the value of the distance element - 1489. What is the
> simplest way of doing this?
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from xml.etree.ElementTree import fromstring
data = """<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<gpx >
<metadata>
<author>
<name>CloudMade</name>
<email id="support" domain="cloudmade.com" />
<link href="http://maps.cloudmade.com";></link>
</author>
<copyright author="CloudMade">
<license>http://cloudmade.com/faq#license</license>
</copyright>
<time>2011-07-28T07:04:01</time>
</metadata>
<extensions>
<distance>1489</distance>
<time>344</time>
<start>Sägerstraße</start>
<end>Im Gisinger Feld</end>
</extensions>
</gpx>"""
def parse_xml(s):
element = fromstring(s)
return element.find("extensions/distance").text
if __name__ == "__main__":
print parse_xml(data)
Hope that helps.
Regards,
BG
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Baishampayan Ghose
b.ghose at gmail.com
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