I have an event log with 100s of thousands of entries with logs of the form:
<event eventTimestamp="2009-12-18T08:22:49.035" uniqueId="1261124569.35725_PFS_1_1340035961"> <result value="Blocked"/> <filters> <filter code="338" type="Filter_Name"> <diagnostic> <result value="Triggered"/> </diagnostic> </filter> <filter code="338" type="Filter_Name"> <diagnostic> <result value="Blocked"/> </diagnostic> </filter> </filters> </event> I am using xml.sax to parse the event log. The trouble with the file above is when I parse for result value I get the last result value (Blocked from above). I want to get the result value triggered (the second in the event). my code is as follows: def startElement(self, name, attrs): if name == 'event': self.eventTime = attrs.get('eventTimestamp',"") self.eventUniqueId = attrs.get('uniqueId', "") if name == 'result': self.resultValue = attrs.get('value',"") return def endElement(self, name): if name=="event": result= eval(self.filter) if result: ... How do I get the result value I require when events have the same names like above? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list