[XML-SIG] newbie question

[Chris Meyers]

Thanks a lot, that did the trick.

Chris

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 04:18:52PM -0600, Mike Olson wrote:
> Chris Meyers wrote:
> > 
> > Ok I have been looking at PyXML for a couple of days now, and I still can't really find a good example of the basic stuff I need to do. I want to read in an XML file, traverse the tree and pull out information. For example I would like to go through this xml:
> > 
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > <report>
> >         <data>
> >                 <rec>
> >                         <fld id="1">123</fld>
> >                         <fld id="2">John></fld>
> >                         <fld id="3">Smith></fld>
> >                 </rec>
> >         </data>
> > </report>
> 
> There are a couple of ways:
> 
> 1.  Use DOM
> 
> from xml.dom.ext.reader import PyExpat
> reader = PyExpat.Reader()
> 
> dom = reader.fromString(XML_SRC)
> 
> flds = dom.documentElement.getElementsByTagName('fld')
> 
> for f in flds:
>     print fld.getAttribute('id')
>     print fld.firstChild.data
> 
> 
> 2.  Use XPath
> 
> from xml import xpath
> from xml.dom.ext.reader import PyExpat
> reader = PyExpat.Reader()
> 
> dom = reader.fromString(XML_SRC)
> 
> flds = xpath.Evaluate('//fld',contextNode = dom)
> 
> for f in flds:
>     print fld.getAttribute('id')
>     print fld.firstChild.data
> 
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> > 
> > >From this xml I would like to pull out the id attributes and the values from the <fld> elements. I can do this in jython with jdom easily enough, but I need to use python for my current application
> > 
> > If someone could point me in the right direction as to where to look to find an example similar to what I am trying to do, I would really appreciate it.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Chris
> > 
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