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Asked: 2026-05-23T23:01:41+00:00

I have used xpaths to great effect with both HTML and XML before, but

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I have used xpaths to great effect with both HTML and XML before, but can’t seem to get any results this time.

The data is from http://www.ahrefs.com/api/, under “Example of an answer”, saved to an .xml file

My code:

from lxml import etree
doc = etree.XML(open('example.xml').read())
print doc.xpath('//result')

which doesn’t give any results.

Where am I going wrong?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You need to take the namespace of the document into account:

    from lxml import etree

doc = etree.parse('example.xml')
print doc.xpath('//n:result',
                namespaces={'n': "http://ahrefs.com/schemas/api/links/1"})

    =>

    [<Element {http://ahrefs.com/schemas/api/links/1}result at 0xc8d670>, 
 <Element {http://ahrefs.com/schemas/api/links/1}result at 0xc8d698>]
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