Getting XML tag values using ElementTree

Question

For the following XML file, I'm trying to get all the book titles and append it to a list.

XML file-

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Text>
 <Library>
    <Book>
            <Title>XYZ</Title>
     </Book>
     <Book>
            <Title>ABC</Title>
     </Book>
 </Library>
</Text>

I'm using ElementTree to extract the tag values using this code-

for child in root.iter('Text'):
  t1=(child.find('Library/Book/Title').text)
  t2=(child.find('Library/Book/Title').text)
  print (t1,t2)

I'm unable to get the second tag value. Is it possible to get both the values in one find and append it to a list?

ronald kok · Accepted Answer · 2017-10-24 15:01:19Z

1

You can get both values in a list using findall instead of find

Updated the code so it suits the comment:

library = []
for text in root.findall('Library'):
    titles = [title.text for title in text.findall('Book/Title')]
    library.append(titles)

This will make an array per library and adds each book title to that array Result:

>>>print(library)
[['XYZ','ABC'],['LMN','PQR']]

here is the documentation

edited Oct 24, 2017 at 15:01

answered Oct 24, 2017 at 10:06

ronald kok

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4 Comments

Misha Over a year ago

Is it possible to create a list of list using findall option? I want to create something like [[XYZ,ABC],[LMN,PQR]] but at the moment all values are placed in a 1D list as [XYZ,ABC,LMN,PQR].

ronald kok Over a year ago

The data per Text block?

Misha Over a year ago

Data per Library block.

ronald kok Over a year ago

Edited the code for you so it matches how you want it.

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