Print XML tag attributes using element tree

Question

I'm using following statements to print the value of Title tag. Its working fine. But I'm also want to print <page id='...' ....... Is it possible? thanks

            <mediawiki>
          <siteinfo>
            <sitename>Wiki</sitename>
            <namespaces>
              <namespace key="-2" case="first-letter">Media</namespace>
            </namespaces>
          </siteinfo>
        <page id="31239628" orglength="6822" newlength="4524" stub="0" categories="0" outlinks="1" urls="10">
        <title>Title</title>
        <categories></categories>
        <links>15099779</links>
        <urls>
        </urls>
        <text>

        Books

        </text>
        </page>

        </mediawiki>

Here is my working code. Which print the title tag values.

import xml.etree.cElementTree as etree
tree = etree.parse('find_title.xml')
for value in tree.getiterator(tag='title'):
    print value.text

aayoubi · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-19 08:30:14Z

2

You can try the following:

import xml.etree.cElementTree as etree
from pprint import pprint
tree = etree.parse('find_title.xml')
for value in tree.getiterator(tag='title'):
    print value.text
for value in tree.getiterator(tag='page'):
    pprint(value.attrib)

It should output something like this:

$ python file.py
Title
{'categories': '0',
 'id': '31239628',
 'newlength': '4524',
 'orglength': '6822',
 'outlinks': '1',
 'stub': '0',
 'urls': '10'}

answered Oct 19, 2011 at 8:30

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4 Comments

no_freedom Over a year ago

Its working thanks. One more question, I need only id. So is it correct print(value.attrib['0']). thanks `

aayoubi Over a year ago

it's even simpler pprint(value.attrib['id'])

no_freedom Over a year ago

I'm looking If the <page id='...'> exists then print <title> value. tree.find("//page[id='31239628']/title").text any suggestion?

aayoubi Over a year ago

if tree.getiterator(tag='page'): look for title as above.

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