Finding sub elements of sub elements in xml python

Question

I have an xml file that is containing a root element, and sub elements of sub elements.

For example:

<root>
    <subRoot>
    <Modified name="Set" text="Bla">
      <Action name="Bla2"/>
    </Modified>
</subRoot>
</root>

If i want to delete all of the Action tags under Modified- How can i do that? Thanks.

If you use the ElemenTree module, you can remove elements with the remove() method on Element objects. See here for details: docs.python.org/2/library/… — Hkoof
– Hkoof, Commented Aug 7, 2019 at 9:33

Andrej Kesely · Accepted Answer · 2019-08-07 10:21:15Z

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You can use various libraries, this example is using beautifulsoup:

data = '''<root>
    <subRoot>
    <Modified name="Set" text="Bla">
      <Action name="Bla2"/>
    </Modified>
</subRoot>
</root>'''

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

soup = BeautifulSoup(data, 'xml')

# selects all tags <Action> under <Modified>
for tag in soup.select('Modified Action'):
    tag.extract() # delete it!

print(soup.prettify())

Prints:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<root>
 <subRoot>
  <Modified name="Set" text="Bla">
  </Modified>
 </subRoot>
</root>

answered Aug 7, 2019 at 10:21

Andrej Kesely

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2 Comments

asdsmk2 Over a year ago

Thanks. Do you know how i can use it using the library element.tree?

Andrej Kesely Over a year ago

@asdsmk2 I don't have experience with elementTree, but here is some information stackoverflow.com/questions/6847263/…

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