Hi Stefan, i don't mean to be annoying so sorry if i am. According to your instructions i do:
parser = objectify.makeparser(ns_clean=True, remove_comments=True) root = objectify.parse(inputfile,parser).getroot() print root.catalog.book.author.text which still gives the following error: AttributeError: no such child: catalog matt On 2/21/2011 3:28 PM, Stefan Behnel wrote: > Matt Funk, 21.02.2011 23:07: >> thank you for your advice. >> I am running into an issue though (which is likely a newbie problem): >> >> My xml file looks like (which i got from the internet): >> <?xml version="1.0"?> >> <catalog> >> <book id="bk101"> >> <author>Gambardella, Matthew</author> >> <title>XML Developer's Guide</title> >> <genre>Computer</genre> >> <price>44.95</price> >> <publish_date>2000-10-01</publish_date> >> <description>An in-depth look at creating applications >> with XML.</description> >> </book> >> </catalog> >> >> Then i try to access it as: >> >> from lxml import etree >> from lxml import objectify >> >> inputfile="../input/books.xml" >> parser = etree.XMLParser(ns_clean=True) >> parser = etree.XMLParser(remove_comments=True) > > Change that to > > parser = objectify.makeparser(ns_clean=True, remove_comments=True) > >> root = objectify.parse(inputfile,parser) > > Change that to > > root = objectify.parse(inputfile,parser).getroot() > > Stefan > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
