[docs] (correction)Bug in ETree

[Noonan]

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 at 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 at uthcode.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>> >>> 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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