Mailman 3 [lxml-dev] xpath problem - lxml - The Python XML Toolkit

18 Sep 2009

      I'm having a problem with xpath and here are the details:

Xml fragment:
<head>
    <docdata>
      <identified-content>
        <classifier class="indexing_service" type="descriptor">Ships and Shipping</classifier>

Xpath: 
'/nitf/head/docdata/identifiedcontent/classifier[@class="indexing_service" and @type="descriptor"]'

Code:
descriptors_list = tree.xpath('/nitf/head/docdata/identifiedcontent/classifier[@class="indexing_service" and @type="descriptor"]')
for descriptors_element in descriptors_list:
        print descriptors_element.tag, descriptors_element.text
        for child in descriptors_element.getchildren():
                print child.tag, child.text

But, the code isn't picking up the required text eg. 'Ships and Shipping'.  Any ideas what is incorrect?

Dinesh

[lxml-dev] xpath problem

Dinesh B Vadhia

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