[Tutor] Retrieving the text of a XML tag with ElementTree

[Bernard Lebel]

Oops, false alarm.

I was reading the wrong tag.... (the <property> tag instead of a
<parameter> one).


Sorry!
Bernard



On 9/14/05, Bernard Lebel <3dbernard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Let say I have this XML chunk:
> 
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> 
> <root>
>   <sceneobject name="Camera_Root" fullname="Camera_Root" type="CameraRoot">
>     <properties>
>       <property name="Visibility" fullname="Camera_Root.visibility"
> type="visibility">
>         <parameters>
>           <parameter scriptname="viewvis"
> fullname="Camera_Root.visibility.viewvis" type="Parameter"
> sourceclassname="nosource">False</parameter>
> 
> 
> I wish to retrieve the "False" between the opening/closing tags.
> I thought I could use something like:
> 
> 
> from elementtree.ElementTree import parse
> 
> oTree = parse( r'C:\temp\Camera_Root.xml' )
> 
> for oXMLObject in oTree.findall( '//sceneobject' ):
>         if oXMLObject.attrib[ 'type' ] == 'CameraRoot':
> 
>                 oXMLProps = oXMLObject.find( 'properties' )
> 
>                 # We found the tag
>                 for oXMLProp in oXMLProps.findall( 'property' ):
>                         if oXMLProp.attrib[ 'name' ] == 'Visibility':
>                                 print oXMLProp.text
> 
> 
> Now the print statements prints an empty line, wich is obviously not
> what I'm after :-)
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Bernard
>