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 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.