Question

New to xml. Looking for XPath to search a xml file with python ElementTree format

<root> <child>One</child> <child>Two</child> <child>Three</child> </root> 

to do search for child with ‘Two’ and return true/false

if it was started off like

from elementtree import ElementTree root = ElementTree.parse(open(PathFile)).getroot() 

how can this be achieved

Answer 1

I’ve been playing with ElementTree lately, lets see..

>>> from xml.etree import ElementTree >>> help(ElementTree.ElementPath) >>> root = ElementTree.fromstring(''' <root><child>One</child><child>Two</child><child>Three</child></root> ''') >>> ElementTree.ElementPath.findall(root, 'child') [<Element child at 2ac98c0>, <Element child at 2ac9638>, <Element child at 2ac9518>] >>> elements = ElementTree.ElementPath.findall(root, 'child') >>> two = [x for x in elements if x.text == 'Two'] >>> two[0].text 'Two' 

This is what you look for right? It says ElementPath has just limited xpath support though, but it does not say not support at all.