Parse XML Envelope in Python

Question

I have this response from SOAP:

<env:Envelope xmlns:env="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope">
 <env:Body>
  <env:Fault>
   <env:Code>
    <env:Value>env:Receiver</env:Value>
    <env:Subcode>
     <env:Value>-10</env:Value>
    </env:Subcode>
   </env:Code>
   <env:Reason>
    <env:Text xml:lang="en">10001069 - Item 804006 not active </env:Text>
   </env:Reason>
   <env:Detail>
    <Object xmlns="">17</Object>
    <ObjectIndex xmlns="">1</ObjectIndex>
    <Command xmlns="">AddObject</Command>
    <SessionID xmlns="">58711</SessionID>
   </env:Detail>
  </env:Fault>
 </env:Body>
</env:Envelope>

I'd Like to access/know tag Reason, like in python: print ObjectXML.Body.Reason.Text For instance, I want use dot notation for travel inside nodes. How I do it?.

Thanks in advance.

Anupam Saini · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-20 10:43:41Z

1

You can use cElement API to get the handle to XML tags in terms of python objects and then use the following activestate recipe to convert the XML to dict representation( Recommended only for smaller XML files, The code in the recipe might need some modifications).

import xml.etree.cElementTree as ElementTree
import XmlDictConfig as XmlDictConfig

if __name__ == "__main__":
  string_containing_my_xml = "read your XML into a string".
  root = ElementTree.parse(StringIO.StringIO(string_containing_my_xml)).getroot()
  xmldict = XmlDictConfig(root) // XmlDictConfig is available in activestate recipe.

http://code.activestate.com/recipes/410469-xml-as-dictionary/

Let me know in case anything is unclear to you.

answered Feb 20, 2013 at 10:43

Anupam Saini

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