[XML-SIG] problem parsing msproject xml

[Stefan Behnel]

Dan Trevino wrote:
> I'm trying to parse project xml.  The main thing i'm trying to get at
> is the task name, which is basically in this structure:
> <Task>
>   <UID>1</UID>
>   <Name>do step 1</Name>    <-- i want the text from here
> ...
> </Task>
> <Resource>
>   <Name>John Doe</Name>
> ...
> </Resource>
> 
> I'm having difficulty figuring out which methods to use to access the
> data.  I cant get to "Name" directly because it is used also for
> project resources....so I need the task name specifically.

Try lxml.etree:

   >>> # untested
   >>> from lxml import etree
   >>> tree = etree.parse("project.xml")
   >>> print tree.xpath("//Task/Name/text()")
   ["do step 1", ...]

or if you don't like XPath:

   >>> # untested
   >>> from lxml import etree
   >>> tree = etree.parse("project.xml")
   >>> for task in tree.getiterator("Task"):
   ...     for name in task.findall("Name"):
   ...         print name.text
   do step 1
   ...

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Stefan