+1 for xpath I also like using xml.dom.minidom<http://docs.python.org/library/xml.dom.minidom.html>since it is so simple and straightforward.
If you XML is poorly formed go with beautiful soup<http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/> . Brian 2011/5/24 Тимур Зарипов <q210....@gmail.com> > 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. > -- Brian Bouterse ITng Services -- 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.
