Replace value of node using getElementsByTagName

[Ouray Viney]

On Aug 10, 9:01 am, Stefan Behnel <stefan... at behnel.de> wrote:
> Ouray Viney wrote:
> > Is there an easy way to replace the node value of <ib>?  Perhaps I am
> > trying to use the wrong python XML library?
>
> Looks like it. Try ElementTree.
>
>     from xml.etree import ElementTree
>     tree = ElementTree.parse("yourfile.xml")
>     for ib in tree.findall("//ib"):
>         ib.text = calculate_new_value(ib.text)
>
> Stefan

Hi:

Thank you all for your responses.  I was looking at ElementTree
(http://effbot.org/zone/pythondoc-elementtree-
ElementTree.htm#elementtree.ElementTree.ElementTree-class).  It is
still unclear to me how I could change the value in the <ib> element.
I reviewed the availed methods and didn't find anything suitable.

In your example you show:

ib.text = calculate_new_value(ib.text)

I don't know what calculate_new_value() represents.

What I am looking for is the ability to do something like this:

from xml.etree import ElementTree
tree = ElementTree.parse("C:\test.xml")
for ib in tree.findall("//ib"):
    ib.text = "somethingnew"

I am also guessing I will need to write the new changes to the file.

tree.write("C:\text.xml")

Good news, while writing this question I tested out the code and it
worked :).

Please excuse my trivial questions, I am new to python and appreciate
your help.

Kind Rgds