On Oct 2, 5:32 am, de...@web.de (Diez B. Roggisch) wrote: > tekion <tek...@gmail.com> writes: > > All, > > I have the following xml tag: > > <event> > > <resource_access> > > <action>httpRequest</action> > > <httpurl>HTTP://cmd.wma.ibm.com:80/</httpurl> > > <httpmethod>GET</httpmethod> > > <httpresponse>200</httpresponse> > > </resource_access> > > </event> > > > I am interested in: > > <action>httpRequest</action> > > <httpurl>HTTP://cmd.wma.ibm.com:80/</httpurl> > > <httpmethod>GET</httpmethod> > > <httpresponse>200</httpresponse> > > as well as the upper layer tag. How do I get at the nest tag listed > > above? Thanks. > > What is the "upper layer tag"? And what do you actually want to "get"? > The text-values? Or do you want to just create a document that just > consists of the resource_access tag? > > Then this should help: > > from xml.etree.ElementTree import * > > doc = """ > <event> > <resource_access> > <action>httpRequest</action> > <httpurl>HTTP://cmd.wma.ibm.com:80/</httpurl> > <httpmethod>GET</httpmethod> > <httpresponse>200</httpresponse> > </resource_access> > </event> > """ > > doc = fromstring(doc) > > resource_access = doc.find("resource_access") > print tostring(resource_access) > > Diez
Diez, This is the sample format from the doc. I the whole log file has this xml formated beginning and ending in the event tag. Is this something ElemenTtree can handle or is it better to user XSLT? Thanks. <event rev="1.2"> <date>2005-10-02-22:01:36.187-04:00I-----</date> <outcome status="953091111" reason="unauthorized">1</outcome> <originator blade="webseald" instance="default"> <component rev="1.2">http</component> <event_id>109</event_id> <action>1</action> <location>cmd.wma.ibm.com</location> </originator> <accessor name="unauthenticated"> <principal auth="IV_UNAUTH_V3.0" domain="Default">Unauthenticated</ principal> <user_location>9.54.83.206</user_location> <user_location_type>IPV4</user_location_type> </accessor> <target resource="5"> <object>/</object> <object_nameinapp>HTTP://cmd.wma.ibm.com:80/</object_nameinapp> </target> <resource_access> <action>httpRequest</action> <httpurl>HTTP://cmd.wma.ibm.com:80/</httpurl> <httpmethod>GET</httpmethod> <httpresponse>200</httpresponse> </resource_access> <data> GET HTTP://cmd.wma.ibm.com:80/ HTTP/1.0 1970 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) </data> </event> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list