[XML-SIG] Parsing Help

[Dave Kuhlman]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 03:32:48PM +0100, Robert Rawlins - Think Blue wrote:
> Hello Guys,
> 
>  
> 
> I'm looking for some help building a function which can parse some XML for
> me using ElementTree. The document is of a very consistent format and I've
> copied an example of the document below.
> 

Here are some suggestions.

Import ElementTree or Lxml:

    from xml.etree import ElementTree as etree

Or:

    from lxml import etree

Parse the string:

    root = etree.fromstring(xmlstring)

Iterate over the nodes in the tree:

    for node in root.getiterator():

Check for the "attribute" tag:

    if node.tag == 'attribute':
    # But, use something like the following if there is a namespace.
    #if node.tag == '{%s}attribute' % (node.nsmap['mynamespace'], ):

Get the "id" attribute (or None is there isn't one):

    charid = node.get('id', None)

Enough to get you started?

Dave


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