delete from pattern to pattern if it contains match

[Peter Otten]

harirammanohar at gmail.com wrote:

> Here is the code:

Finally ;)

> import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
> ET.register_namespace("", "http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee")

I don't know what this does, but probably not what you expected.

> tree = ET.parse('sample.xml')
> root = tree.getroot()
> 
> for servlet in root.findall('servlet'):
>         servletname = servlet.find('servlet-name').text

I think you have to specify the namespace:

for servlet in root.findall('{http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee}servlet'):
    servletname = servlet.find(
        '{http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee}servlet-name').text

>         if servletname == "controller":

You could have added a print statement to verify that the line below is 
executed.

>                 root.remove(servlet)
> 
> tree.write('output.xml')
> 
> This will work if <web-app> </web-app> doesnt have below...
> 
> xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee"
>   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
>   xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee
>                       http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_1.xsd"