tdan, 09.03.2010 04:35:
I have been using ElementTree to write an app, and would like to
simply remove an element.
But in ElementTree, you must know both the parent and the child
element to do this.
There is no getparent() function, so I am stuck if I only have an
element.
I am iterating over a table and getting all<td> tags, checking their
text, and conditionally deleting them:
def RemoveElementWithText( topEl, subEl, text ):
Note that all-camel-case names are rather unusual for function names and
rather used for class names. See PEP 8 for a style guide.
for el in topEl.getiterator( subEl ):
if el.text = text:
break
else:
el = None
return el
RemoveElementWithText( table, 'td', 'sometext' )
My table is like so:
<table>
<thead>...
<tbody><tr><td>...
Is there any way to do this in ElementTree?
I think the easiest is to iterate not over the elements themselves, but
over their parents, and then to remove all children of the specified tag in
each step.
Stefan
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