parse xml

[Adam Tauno Williams]

Quoting 守株待兔 <1248283536 at qq.com>:
> please click the
> http://www.secinfo.com/d14qfp.q9j.htm
> then ,click  the following:
> 44: XML   IDEA: Condensed Consolidating Statements of Income   XML    
> 5.11M   (Details)--R158
> there is the  citigroup's annual financial report --statements of  
> income,xml file.
> how can i get a  table of  statements of income  in python ?

Read the document with etree, and either iterate over it or grab the  
required values with xpath.

from lxml import etree
doc = etree.parse(self.rfile)
result = doc.xpath(self._xpath, namespaces=doc.getroot().nsmap)