On 2012-10-28 02:27, janni...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello all,
I am new to Python and have a problem with the behaviour of the xml parser.
Assume we have this xml document:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<bibliography>
<entry>
Title of the first book.
</entry>
<entry>
<coauthored/>
Title of the second book.
</entry>
</bibliography>
If I now check for the text of all 'entry' nodes, the text for the node with
the empty element isn't shown
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
tree = ET.ElementTree(file='test.xml')
root = tree.getroot()
resultSet = root.findall(".//entry")
for r in resultSet:
print (r.text)
It _is_ shown, it's just that it's all whitespace:
>>> for r in resultSet:
print(ascii(r.text))
'\n Title of the first book.\n '
'\n '
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