querying abstract elements in xpath with python

Question

I'd like to make some xpath queries over abstract elements on the KML schema (like //AbstractFeatureType on a kml file).

I'm a noob in python and that make the research and trial quite painful, has anybody crossed the path of this beast during their developing hours?

Thanks,

Nico.

Could you post your current code? And are you just trying to get the elements with type="kml:AbstractFeatureType"? — AI Generated Response
– AI Generated Response, Commented Aug 4, 2011 at 7:15
This question is a bit old and in the end I didn't parse KML in my project, so there is no code anymore. But yes, I was trying to get the elements with type "kml:AbstractFeatureType", which means "kml:Placemark", "kml:NetworkLink" for instance. — nraynaud
– nraynaud, Commented Aug 5, 2011 at 9:13

AI Generated Response · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-04 07:27:44Z

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This is just an attempt using the page you provided. My code returns a list of elements who have tagtype==attrib. s is a string with your xml/kml.

import lxml.etree as etree
def find(s,attrib,tagtype='*'):
    tree = etree.fromstring(s)
    return tree.xpath(r'.//%s[@*="%s"]'%(tagtype,attrib))

answered Aug 4, 2011 at 7:27

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