Removing part of string

[saif.shakeel at gmail.com]

On May 14, 1:04 pm, half.ital... at gmail.com wrote:
> On May 13, 10:56 pm, saif.shak... at gmail.com wrote:
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> > Hi,
> >     I am parsing an xml file ,and one part of structure looks
> > something like this:
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> > - <COMPARAM id="_338" DDORef="_18" Semantics="timing"
> > PhysicalLink="Infotainment_Control_Bus_CAN">
> >   <SHORTNAME>Infotainment_Control_Bus_CAN_TIMEOUT_AX</SHORTNAME>
> >   <LONGNAME>Timeout N_As/N_Ar</LONGNAME>
> >   <DESCRIPTION>Time from transmit request until a CAN frame transmit
> > confirmation is received.</DESCRIPTION>
> >   </COMPARAM>
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> >                   In my code i am extracting the data within
> > <LONGNAME>,which is Timeout N_As/N_Ar.These tags repeat and will have
> > different timer names..like
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> > - <COMPARAM id="_339" DDORef="_18" Semantics="timing"
> > PhysicalLink="Infotainment_Control_Bus_CAN">
> >   <SHORTNAME>Infotainment_Control_Bus_CAN_TIMEOUT_BS</SHORTNAME>
> >   <LONGNAME>Timeout N_Bs</LONGNAME>
> >   <DESCRIPTION>Time that the transmitter of a multi-frame message
> > shall wait to receive a flow control (FC) frame before timing out with
> > a network layer error.</DESCRIPTION>
> >   </COMPARAM>
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> >                  I need to remove the words Timeout from the data,and
> > take only the abbrevation..i.e.N_As/N_bs like that .In short i have to
> > remove the words which come with name Time,and also the space which
> > comes next to it.
> > and take only the abbreviation.Can someone help me in this.
> >                      Thanks
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Thanks for thr replies.It helped a lot.
Regarding the element tree problem,the module error is gone but a new
problem has appeared,which i have posted in new thread,