xml.etree Syntax of path?

Stefan Behnel stefan_ml at behnel.de
Fri May 9 06:02:04 EDT 2008


Thomas Guettler wrote:
> I think the documentation of xml.etree is missing something[1].
> 
> {{{
> find(path)
>     Finds the first toplevel element with given tag. Same as
> getroot().find(path). path is the element to look for.
> }}}
> 
> According to the source etree has limited support for xpath. I think it
> should be documented what 'path' should look like to.

You mean like this?

http://effbot.org/zone/element-xpath.htm

Note that the method is called "find()", not "execute_xpath()" or something.
If you want full XPath support, lxml is your friend.

Stefan



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