Parsing attribute name text from xml using xml.etree.elementTree

Question

I'm not sure how i could get the values from <array name="logEntries" type="value" depth="1"> with the following code.

What i currently have so far, which works if have only one array tag on the xml, but not on multiple.

#Currently xml_input var is returned from an http request
root = ElementTree.fromstring(xml_input)
for child in root.findall('.array/value'):
    print(child)

XML sample:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Values version="2.0">
  <array name="logList" type="value" depth="1">
    <value>type_log</value>
  </array>
  <value name="numlines">2</value>
  <array name="numlinesList" type="value" depth="1">
    <value>2</value>
  </array>
  <array name="logEntries" type="value" depth="1">
    <value>some inputs</value>
    <value>other inputs</value>
  </array>
</Values>

Desired output:

some inputs
other inputs

In short, even consulting The ElementTree XML API i'm unable to discover how can overcome this.

Thanks in advance

Works for me. I get all 4 <value>s.

Daniel
– Daniel

2016-06-08 17:29:27 +00:00
Commented Jun 8, 2016 at 17:29 — Daniel
– Daniel, Commented Jun 8, 2016 at 17:29

solbs · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-08 17:34:02Z

2

Try this:

for child in root.findall('.//array[@name="logEntries"]/value'):
    print(child.text)

edited Jun 8, 2016 at 17:34

answered Jun 8, 2016 at 17:26

solbs

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thclpr Over a year ago

Worked perfectly.Thank you!

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