xml.etree Syntax of path?

Thomas Guettler hv at tbz-pariv.de
Fri May 9 08:07:56 EDT 2008


Stefan Behnel schrieb:
> 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

Yes, since etree is part of the standard library, the documentation
should be there, too. Or at least a link should be provided.

  Thomas

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