How to read a value from XML in Python

Question

I want to read the value of author and title from the below XML using python

<book id="bk101">
  <author Value="J.K.Rowling" />
  <title Value="Harry Potter"/>
</book>

Code:

member.find('author').text
# returns None.

Code please! You want an attribute value, not text. Perhaps member.find('author').attrib['Value'] will give you what you want. — tdelaney
– tdelaney, Commented Feb 16, 2017 at 4:18
Code should include the module you are using to parse the XML. They have different ways of addressing attributes. — tdelaney
– tdelaney, Commented Feb 16, 2017 at 4:20

Scovetta · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-16 04:15:15Z

1

Making some assumptions on the XML library you're using, here's an example using xml.dom.minidom:

from xml.dom import minidom

xml_string = """<book id="bk101">
  <author Value="J.K.Rowling" />
  <title Value="Harry Potter"/>
</book>"""

# Parse 
root = minidom.parseString(xml_string)
author_list = root.getElementsByTagName("author")

for author in author_list:
  value = author.getAttribute("Value")
  print("Found an author with value of {0}".format(value))

Output:

Found an author with value of J.K.Rowling

answered Feb 16, 2017 at 4:15

Scovetta

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