xml.sax parsing elements with the same name

[John Bokma]

amadain <mfmdevine at gmail.com> writes:

> On Jan 11, 7:26 pm, John Bokma <j... at castleamber.com> wrote:
>> amadain <mfmdev... at gmail.com> writes:


>> > <event eventTimestamp="2009-12-18T08:22:49.035"
>> > uniqueId="1261124569.35725_PFS_1_1340035961">
>> >    <result value="Blocked"/>
>> >       <filters>
>> >           <filter code="338" type="Filter_Name">
>> >               <diagnostic>
>> >                    <result value="Triggered"/>
>> >               </diagnostic>
>> >           </filter>
>> >           <filter code="338" type="Filter_Name">
>> >               <diagnostic>
>> >                    <result value="Blocked"/>
>> >               </diagnostic>
>> >           </filter>
>> >       </filters>
>> > </event>

> how do I keep track? The first result value is outside a filters
> section and the rest are. Do you mean something like:
>
>     def startElement(self, name, attrs):
>         if name == 'event':
>             self.eventTime = attrs.get('eventTimestamp',"")
>             self.eventUniqueId = attrs.get('uniqueId', "")
>         if name == 'result':
>                 self.resultValue = attrs.get('value',"")
>         if name == filters:
>             if name == 'result':
>                 self.resultValueF = attrs.get('value',"")
>         return

I was thinking about something like:

self.filterIndex = 0

in startElement:

    if name == 'filter':
       self.filterIndex += 1
       return
    if name == 'result' and self.filterIndex == 1:
       ...  = attrs.get('value', '')

in EndElement

   if name == 'filters':
      self.filterIndex = 0

If you want the result of the first filter in filters

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