contro opinion, 23.01.2012 08:34: > import lxml.html > myxml=''' > <cooperate> > <job DecreaseHour="1" table="tpa_radio_sum"> > </job> > > <job DecreaseHour="2" > table="tpa_radio_sum"> > </job> > > > <job DecreaseHour="3" table="tpa_radio_sum"> > </job> > </cooperate> > ''' > root=lxml.html.fromstring(myxml) > nodes1=root.xpath('//job[@DecreaseHour="1"]') > nodes2=root.xpath('//job[@ne_type="101"]') > print "nodes1=",nodes1 > print "nodes2=",nodes2 > > what i get is: > nodes1=[] and > nodes2=[<Element job at 0x13636f0>] > why nodes1 is []?nodes2=[<Element job at 0x13636f0>],
Not on my side. I get two empty lists. > it is so strange thing?why ? The really strange thing that I don't understand is why you would use an HTML parser to parse an XML document. You should use lxml.etree instead. Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list