Counting Elements in an xml file

[Gerard flanagan]

Ouray Viney wrote:
> Hi All:
> 
> I am looking at writing a python script that will let me parse a
> TestSuite xml file that contains n number of TestCases.
> 
> My goal is to be able to count the <TestCase> elements base on a key
> value pair in the xml node.
> 
> Example
> 
> <Testcase execute="true" name="foobar">
> 
> I would like to be able to count the number of TestCases that contain
> the "execute=true" but not the ones that contain "execute=false".
> 

You might try the `count` function in the module here:

http://gflanagan.net/python/projects/python-rattlebag/elementfilter.html

The pseudo xpath would be something like:

/Testcase[@execute=="true"]

hth

G.