Question

I have a big xml document that looks like this:

<Node name="foo">
    <Node name="16764764625">
        <Val name="type"><s>3</s></Val>
        <Val name="owner"><s>1</s></Val>
        <Val name="location"><s>4</s></Val>
        <Val name="brb"><n/></Val>
        <Val name="number"><f>24856</f></Val>
        <Val name="number2"><f>97000.0</f></Val>
    </Node>
    <Node name="1764466544">
        <Val name="type"><s>1</s></Val>
        <Val name="owner"><s>2</s></Val>
        <Val name="location"><s>6</s></Val>
        <Val name="brb"><n/></Val>
        <Val name="number"><f>265456</f></Val>
        <Val name="number2"><f>99000.0</f></Val>
    </Node>
    ...
</Node>

My mission is to get the value of the parent node: 1764466544 (value of name in 2nd Node) by doing a search to find if the subelement of the node Val name=”number” contains 265456

I’ve been doing a heap of reading on XPath, and ElementTree, but I am still not sure where to start actually query this. Looking for examples… I can’t find any that reference a parent node as a result.

Still new to python.. any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks

Answer 1

This XPath:

/Node/Node[Val[@name='number']/f='265456']/@name

Outputs:

1764466544