XPath support?

Kev Dwyer kevin.p.dwyer at gmail.com
Sun Aug 16 16:37:16 EDT 2009


On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 20:29:15 +0000, kj wrote:

> I'm looking for a XML parser that produces an object with full XPath
> support.  What I've been using up to now, xml.etree.ElementTree, fails
> to support Xpath predicates, as in "spam[@eggs='3']/ham".
> 
> What I'm trying to do is to read-in a large XML string, and parse it
> into an object from which I can extract nodes matching selectors that
> include such predicates.
> 
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> TIA!
> 
> kynn


Have you tried lxml (http://codespeak.net/lxml/)?

Kev




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