On Friday, March 9, 2012 12:24:04 PM UTC-5, Jason Cooper wrote: > I'm curious to know if anyone with ElementTree 1.3 has gotten the parent > XPath to work? According to http://effbot.org/zone/element-xpath.htm, you > should be able to do > > >>> import xml.etree.ElementTree as et > >>> et.VERSION > '1.3.0' > ... > >>> elem.find('..') > >>> > > but that always return None for me. Has anyone else seen this particular > XPath work? Am I just doing something wrong? > > Thanks for you help! > Jason > > PS. In case you're wondering, yes I know that lxml supports parent points > and, yes, I'm aware of http://effbot.org/zone/element.htm#accessing-parents. > I'm really wondering if the mentioned XPath is broken or something.
Looks like I may have figured out my own answer. I just noticed that using '..' when searching on the tree (as opposed to the element) works as expected. Makes sense after I stepped back and recalled that the elements don't contain pointers to their parents. The tree, on the other hand, can see all. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
