[Tutor] Retrieving the text of a XML tag with ElementTree
Bernard Lebel
3dbernard at gmail.com
Wed Sep 14 20:14:43 CEST 2005
Hello,
Let say I have this XML chunk:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
<sceneobject name="Camera_Root" fullname="Camera_Root" type="CameraRoot">
<properties>
<property name="Visibility" fullname="Camera_Root.visibility"
type="visibility">
<parameters>
<parameter scriptname="viewvis"
fullname="Camera_Root.visibility.viewvis" type="Parameter"
sourceclassname="nosource">False</parameter>
I wish to retrieve the "False" between the opening/closing tags.
I thought I could use something like:
from elementtree.ElementTree import parse
oTree = parse( r'C:\temp\Camera_Root.xml' )
for oXMLObject in oTree.findall( '//sceneobject' ):
if oXMLObject.attrib[ 'type' ] == 'CameraRoot':
oXMLProps = oXMLObject.find( 'properties' )
# We found the tag
for oXMLProp in oXMLProps.findall( 'property' ):
if oXMLProp.attrib[ 'name' ] == 'Visibility':
print oXMLProp.text
Now the print statements prints an empty line, wich is obviously not
what I'm after :-)
Thanks
Bernard
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