Parse XML SOAP response with Python

Question

I want parse this response from SOAP and extract text between <LoginResult> :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
     <soap:Body>
      <LoginResponse xmlns="http://tempuri.org/wsSalesQuotation/Service1">
        <LoginResult>45eeadF43423KKmP33</LoginResult>
      </LoginResponse>
     </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

How I can do it using XML Python Libs?

Gjordis · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-12 08:56:46Z

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import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
tree = ET.parse('soap.xml')    

print tree.find('.//{http://tempuri.org/wsSalesQuotation/Service1}LoginResult').text


>>45eeadF43423KKmP33

instead of print, do something useful to it.

edited Feb 12, 2013 at 8:56

answered Feb 12, 2013 at 8:46

Gjordis

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ManuParra Over a year ago

SyntaxError: cannot use absolute path on element

Gjordis Over a year ago

What python version are you using?

ManuParra Over a year ago

I have Python 2.7.3 on MAC osX

ManuParra Over a year ago

but I use ET.fromstring(...) doesn't work, but parse() works. What's the problem with fromstring

Gjordis Over a year ago

Might be some encoding issue. Not sure. But try with that modification i made in the example. Add a "." infront of the //. Where you get the string from, straight from http-response?

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