Jason Friedman <jsf80...@gmail.com> writes: > I have XML which looks like: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <!DOCTYPE KMART SYSTEM "my.dtd"> > <LEVEL_1> > <LEVEL_2 ATTR="hello"> > <ATTRIBUTE NAME="Property X" VALUE ="2"/> > </LEVEL_2> > <LEVEL_2 ATTR="goodbye"> > <ATTRIBUTE NAME="Property Y" VALUE ="NULL"/> > <LEVEL_3 ATTR="aloha"> > <ATTRIBUTE NAME="Property X" VALUE ="3"/> > </LEVEL_3> > <ATTRIBUTE NAME="Property Z" VALUE ="welcome"/> > </LEVEL_2> > </LEVEL_1> > > The "Property X" string appears twice times and I want to output the "path" > that leads to all such appearances.
You could use "lxml" and its "xpath" support. This is a high end approach: you would use a powerful (and big) infrastructure (but one which could also be of use for other XML applications). There are more elementary approaches as well (e.g. parse the XML into a DOM and provide your own visitor to find the elements you are interested in). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
