Question

I want to extract attributes out of the xml file using this code
xml file is :

xml= "<graphics type='xxx' port=’0’ autoport='xxx' listen='0.0.0.0'>
  <listen type='address' address='0.0.0.0'/>
</graphics>"

and the code is :

def xml_to_dict(xml):  
      d={}   
      if xmlk.text:
         d[xmlk.tag] = xmlk.text  
      else:
         d[xmlk.tag] = {}   
     children = xmlk.getchildren()   
     if children:
         d[xmlk.tag] = map(xml_to_dict, children)  
         return d

     xml_to_dict(xyz) Output: {'graphics': [{'listen': {}}]}

i have tried dmlk,attrib instead of tag but to no avail. Does anybody knows this

Answer 1

I’d suggest lxml, but the following code works with either lxml or ElementTree

You also need to tweak your agorithm a bit:

from xml.etree import ElementTree as etree
tree = etree.fromstring(xml)

def xml_to_dict(tree):  
  d={}   
  if tree.text:
     d[tree.tag] = tree.text  
  elif len(tree) < 0:
     d[tree.tag] = {}   
  else:   
     d[tree.tag] = map(xml_to_dict, tree)  
 return d

That gives you what you asked for.