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I can't use getroot() when using fromstring() -- as fromstring()
returns an Element, not an ElementTree object.<br>
<br>
Yes, my root is the 'components' element, but find() seems to insist
on searching for sub-elements.<br>
<br>
Ideally, I would like root.find('components') or
root.find('./components') to find the components element at the
top-level.<br>
<br>
I'd also like to be able to do root.find('./components/component')
or root.find('./components/component/name') and so on.<br>
<br>
I guess I just have to check that root.tag == 'components' first,
then search for './component', './component/name' and so on. It's a
bit ugly, but heaps better than using minidom :)<br>
<br>
Cheers, Brendan.<br>
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On 31/08/10 6:57 PM, Nitin Pawar wrote:
<blockquote type="cite">Try using <tt class="descname">getroot</tt><big>(</big><big>)</big>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">I
think your root is components so its searching in root <br>
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On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Brendan Simon (eTRIX) <span
dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brendan.simon@etrix.com.au">brendan.simon@etrix.com.au</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> 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>
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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>
<br>
root = ET.fromstring( xml )<br>
<br>
### This pattern is not found :(<br>
comps = root.find( './/components' )<br>
<br>
</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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<br>
Thanks, Brendan.<br>
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