On Jan 15, 3:49 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gowri schrieb: > > > Hello, > > > I've been reading about ElementTreee and ElementPath so I could use > > them to find the right elements in the DOM. Unfortunately neither of > > these seem to offer XPath like capabilities where I can find elements > > based on tag, attribute values etc. Are there any libraries which can > > give me XPath like functionality? > > lxml does that. > > Diez
Hi Diez I was trying lxml out and was unable to find any examples that would help me parse an XML file with namespaces. For example, my XML file looks like this: <phedexData xmlns="http://a.b.com/phedex"; xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; xsi:schemaLocation="http://a.b.com/phedex requests.xsd"> <!-- Low priority replication request --> <request id="1234" last_update="1060199000.0"> <status> <approved>T1_RAL_MSS</approved> <approved>T2_London_ICHEP</approved> <disapproved>T2_Southgrid_Bristol</disapproved> <pending/> <move_pending/> </status> <subscription open="1" priority="0" type="replicate"> <items> <dataset>/PrimaryDS1/ProcessedDS1/Tier</dataset> <block>/PrimaryDS2/ProcessedDS2/Tier/block</block> </items> </subscription> </request> </phedexData> If my Xpath query is //request, it obviously would not work. Is there some sort of namespace registration etc. that is to be done before issuing a query? Example code would help a lot. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
