Actually the problem was on my end, XML <EVENT> <VmEventLog xmlns:auto-ns2='http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events' xmlns='http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Virtualization/Events'> <VmName>b9be59fa-251f-4d76-bfa0-d9e682aad571</VmName><VmId>5B8C5EC7-D265-49E0-98E3-77D7E168AA06</VmId> </VMEventLog> </EVENT> The VMName tag is what I was trying to pull and the VMName tag implicitly has {http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Virtualization/Events} prepended from the parent in its tag name, so instead of searching for VmName I had to call the api with { http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Virtualization/Events}VmName. I guess that's a piece of XML I didn't pick up. I didn't know what the xmlns attribute does. Sorry. -Eric On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Noonan <noonanes@gmail.com> wrote:

From what I see, it's working fine for you, but I'm running an older version of Python. THis version of python is shipped with the VHDs my company packages for maintenance. Do you know if this was fixed since October?

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 6:10 AM, Senthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com> wrote:

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Hello Noonan,

In general, I agree that docs could see improvement in listing examples.

Specifically what was the bug in ET object’s .findall or .find ?

Here I use the example listed in the docs and works fine for me.

$ ./python.exe Python 3.4.3+ (3.4:3ded282f9615, Jun 17 2015, 06:05:20) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

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import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET tree = ET.parse('country_data.xml') root = tree.getroot() root.findall(".") [<Element 'data' at 0x10ea87b88>] root.findall("./country/neighbor") [<Element 'neighbor' at 0x10eb63868>, <Element 'neighbor' at 0x10eb638b8>, <Element 'neighbor' at 0x10eb63a48>, <Element 'neighbor' at 0x10eb63bd8>, <Element 'neighbor' at 0x10eb63c28>] root.findall(".//year/..[@name='Singapore']") [<Element 'country' at 0x10eb63908>] root.findall(".//*[@name='Singapore']/year") [<Element 'year' at 0x10eb639a8>] root.findall(".//neighbor[2]") [<Element 'neighbor' at 0x10eb638b8>, <Element 'neighbor' at 0x10eb63c28>]

Thanks, Senthil

-- Senthil Kumaran

On Tuesday, June 16, 2015 at 5:55 PM, Noonan wrote:

Sorry my last email sent prematurely, I'm not sure how. I was using a hotkey for pasing when it accidently sent.

I'm running Python version:

3.4.2 (v3.4.2:ab2c023a9432, Oct 6 2014, 22:16:31) [MSC v.1600 64 bit (AMD64)]

When I do a .findall or .find on an Element object of an ElementTree from xml.etree, xpath queries (of the format './/<tagname>') aren't letting me retrieve children that aren't direct descendants of the Element object. Also, the documentation doesn't clearly show/when how to use XPath queries, it just mentions that you can use them instead. A lot of python documentation is like this and it leads to a lot of tinkering and then frustration when it doesn't work. Stack overflow said the same solution, but really, I think it's sad when your documentation needs stack overflow for clarification. Documentation is by no means fast, but the depth should be better than a quick search on Google/Bing.

This page is the one I used to read up on it. But I actually found better depth/examples in StackOverflow or the site of the guy that I think wrote Etree before you guys integrated it into Python.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/xml.etree.elementtree.html?highlight=xml

Thanks!

-Eric

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