I'd really reallly suggest you to use lxml library <http://lxml.de/> for xml
parsing -- it has xpath in it.
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Sithembewena Lloyd Dube
<zebr...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I am trying to parse an XML feed and display the text of each child node
> without any success. My code in the python shell is as follows:
>
> >>>import urllib
> >>>from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET
>
> >>>content = urllib.urlopen('
> http://xml.matchbook.com/xmlfeed/feed?sport-id=&vendor=TEST&sport-name=&short-name=Po
> ')
> >>>xml_content = ET.parse(content)
>
> I then check the xml_content object as follows:
>
> >>>xml_content
> <xml.etree.ElementTree.ElementTree instance at 0x01DC14B8>
>
> And now, to iterate through its child nodes and print out the text of each
> node:
>
> >>>for node in xml_content.getiterator('contest'):
> ... name = node.attrib.get('text')
> ... print name
> ...
> >>>
>
> Nothing is printed, even though the document does have 'contest' tags with
> text in them. If I try to count the contest tags and increment an integer
> (to see that the document is traversed) I get the same result - the int
> remains at 0.
>
> >>> i = 0
> >>> for node in xml_content.getiterator('contest'):
> ... i += 1
> ...
> >>> i
> 0
>
> What am I getting wrong? Any hints would be appreciated.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Sithembewena Lloyd Dube
>
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