I need to write a Python script that reads and replaces some data in an XML file. The data that is replaced has to be read automatically from a directory (it's a file's name)
<setting name="abc" serializeAs="String">
<value>fw.version.1.1</value>
the fw.version1.1 has to be replaced with the file name from a folder.
Could use some help:)
thanks, Robert
Assuming the XML File looks something like that test.xml:
<someXml>
<setting name="abc" serializeAs="String"/>
<value>fw.version.1.1</value>
</someXml>
To read the XML Data from File:
from lxml import etree
parser = etree.XMLParser(remove_blank_text=True)
xmlData = etree.parse('test.xml', parser )
Reading the text from the value Tag:
xmlData.xpath('//value')[0].text
Writing new text to the value Tag:
xmlData.xpath('//value')[0].text = "test"
And finally write your changes to the same (or any other) File:
xmlData.write( 'test.xml', pretty_print=True )
