[Tutor] XML parsing

[Asif Iqbal]

I am trying to extract all the *template-name*s, but no success yet

Here is a sample xml file

<collection xmlns:y="http://tail-f.com/ns/rest">
  <template-metadata xmlns="http://networks.com/nms">
    <template-name>ALLFLEX-BLOOMINGTON</template-name>
    <type>post-staging</type>
    <device-type>full-mesh</device-type>
    <provider-tenant>ALLFLEX</provider-tenant>
    <subscription xmlns="http://networks.com/nms">
      <solution-tier>advanced-plus</solution-tier>
      <bandwidth>1000</bandwidth>
      <is-analytics-enabled>true</is-analytics-enabled>
      <is-primary>true</is-primary>
    </subscription>
....
</collection>

with open('/tmp/template-metadata') as f:
    import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
    root = ET.fromstring(f.read())

print len(root)
print root[0][0].text
for l in root.findall('template-metadata'):
    print l


392
ALLFLEX-BLOOMINGTON


It prints the length of the tree and the first element of the first child,
but when I try to loop through to find all the 'template-name's
it does not print anything.

What am I doing wrong?


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Asif Iqbal
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
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