[Tutor] Fw: Traversing XML Tree with ElementTree

[Dinesh B Vadhia]

i've got most of this working now so hold off (for now).  thanks.

dinesh



From: Dinesh B Vadhia 
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 8:31 PM
To: tutor at python.org 
Subject: Traversing XML Tree with ElementTree


I want to traverse an xml file and at each node retain the full path from the parent to that node ie.  if we have:

<a> 
        <b att="atttag" content="b"> this is node b </b> 
        <c> this is node c 
                <d> this is node d </d> 
        </c> 
        <e> this is node e </e> 
</a> 

... then require:

<a>
<a><b att="atttag" content="b"> this is node b
<a><c> this is node c 

<a><c><d> this is node d
<a><e> this is node e

I found this code on the Comp.Lang.Python list but it doesn't retain the full path.

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
tree = ET.parse(xmlfile)

def traverse(node):
    for c in node.getchildren():
        print c.tag, ':', c.text
        traverse(c)

root = tree.getroot()
traverse(root)

Any ideas how to do this?  Thanks

Dinesh
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