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I am trying to use ElementTree (with Python 2.7) and can't seem to
find elements at the top level. The find() and findall() methods
seem to find elements within the top level, but not if it the
elements are at the top level.<br>
<br>
How do I find top level elements ??<br>
Here is my code.<br>
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<blockquote><tt>import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET<br>
<br>
xml = '''\<br>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252" ?><br>
<components><br>
<component><br>
<name>Fred</name><br>
<location>Australia</location><br>
</component><br>
</components><br>
'''<br>
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root = ET.fromstring( xml )<br>
<br>
### This pattern is not found :(<br>
comps = root.find( './/components' )<br>
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</tt><tt>### These patterns are found ok :)</tt><br>
<tt>comp = root.find( './/component' )<br>
</tt><tt>name = root.find( './/name' )<br>
</tt><br>
<tt>print 'comps =', comps<br>
print 'comp =', comp<br>
</tt><tt>print 'name =', name</tt><br>
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Thanks, Brendan.<br>
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