Python reading xml file with multiple namespace

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  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
        <country:list version="3.0" xmlns:country="http://Some/www.home.com" xmlns:region="http://some/www.hello.com" xmlns:Location="http://Some/www.home.com">
            <country:Region111>
                <Some_child_tags>
                    <region:tag1 name="1">some contents in country:Region111 </region:tag1>

                    <tags>

                            .
                            .
                            .
                            .
                    </tags>
                    <region:tag1 name="2">Some other contents in country:Region111</region:tag1>
                </Some_child_tags>
            </country:Region111>

            <Location:Region222>
            <Some_child_tags>
                    <region:tag1 name="1">some contents in Location:Region222</region:tag1>
                    <tags>

                            .
                            .
                            .
                            .
                    </tags>
                    <region:tag1 name="2">Some other contents in Location:Region222</region:tag1>
                </Some_child_tags>
            </Location:Region222>
        </country:list>

I want to retrieve all the <region:tag1> tag contens and attribute values also that is comming under <country:Region111>...</country:Region111> not under <Location:Region222> ....</Location:Region222>. So the final output should be the following

name 1 some contents in country:Region111                                
name 2 Some other contents in country:Region111

      It should eliminate the <region:tag1> contents that is coming from <Location:Region222>.

don't post input xml content in comments - move it to the question — RomanPerekhrest
– RomanPerekhrest, Commented Jun 9, 2017 at 6:35
show how should look the final output considering that there are several region:tag1 tags and they have child tags (how that childs contents should be treated) and including attribute values(1,2) — RomanPerekhrest
– RomanPerekhrest, Commented Jun 9, 2017 at 13:55

RomanPerekhrest · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-09 06:59:50Z

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Your input XML document should look as below (to be valid):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<country:list version="3.0" xmlns:country="http://Some/www.home.com" xmlns:region="http://some/www.hello.com">
<country:Region111>
     <Some_child_tags>
      <region:tag1>some contents</region:tag1>
     </Some_child_tags>
</country:Region111>
</country:list>

The solution using xml.etree.ElementTree module:

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

tree = ET.parse("yourfile.xml")
root = tree.getroot()
tag1 = root.find('.//{http://some/www.hello.com}tag1')  # accessing tag with namespace

print(tag1.text)

The output:

some contents

answered Jun 9, 2017 at 6:59

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4 Comments

sudarsan Over a year ago

Thanks for ur valuable support.

RomanPerekhrest Over a year ago

@sudarsan, welcome, you can accept the answer if it has solved the issue

sudarsan Over a year ago

The above given solution is for fetching only the first element,How can we fetch all the contents for <region:tag1>.If the xml file is looking like this. <Some_child_tags> <region:tag1>some contents</region:tag1> . . . . <region:tag1>some other contents</region:tag1> </Some_child_tags> please help.

RomanPerekhrest Over a year ago

@sudarsan, update your xml and post the final output into the question

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