Re: [lxml-dev] Efficient way to search element attribs?

Hi, Viksit Gaur wrote:

When building a tree, I add a particular attribute to each element (eg: ID), and was wondering if there are any methods I could use to search the tree for tags that have this attribute?

I looked at find(), findall() and the xpath functions - but they seem to help only when you know the tag name itself.

You should read a bit on XPath, or at least on the ElementPath syntax. http://effbot.org/zone/element-xpath.htm The '*' wildcard allows you to search for any element tag. All iterators in lxml.etree support it, BTW. Stefan