I put some code I did before for the xmlns: xml_root = ET.ElementTree(ET.fromstring(xml_decoded)).getroot() for elem in xml_root.getiterator(): if('{http://request.messagepush.interfaces.comviva.com/xsd}shortCode'==elem.tag): shortCode = (elem.text).rstrip() if('{http://request.messagepush.interfaces.comviva.com/xsd}text'==elem.tag): send_text = (elem.text).rstrip() if('{http://request.messagepush.interfaces.comviva.com/xsd}item'==elem.tag): subscribers = (elem.text).rstrip() result_sms = send_sms(subscribers,shortCode,send_text)
Reuse it. -----Original Message----- From: Python-list [mailto:python-list-bounces+joaquin.alzola=lebara....@python.org] On Behalf Of Peter Otten Sent: 25 April 2016 11:14 To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: delete from pattern to pattern if it contains match harirammano...@gmail.com wrote: > Here is the code: Finally ;) > import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET > ET.register_namespace("", "http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee") I don't know what this does, but probably not what you expected. > tree = ET.parse('sample.xml') > root = tree.getroot() > > for servlet in root.findall('servlet'): > servletname = servlet.find('servlet-name').text I think you have to specify the namespace: for servlet in root.findall('{http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee}servlet'): servletname = servlet.find( '{http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee}servlet-name').text > if servletname == "controller": You could have added a print statement to verify that the line below is executed. > root.remove(servlet) > > tree.write('output.xml') > > This will work if <web-app> </web-app> doesnt have below... > > xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee" > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" > xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee > http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_1.xsd" -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list This email is confidential and may be subject to privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not copy or disclose its content but contact the sender immediately upon receipt. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list