problems with xml parsing (python 3.3)

2012-10-27 Thread jannidis 
Hello all, 

I am new to Python and have a problem with the behaviour of the xml parser. 
Assume we have this xml document:




Title of the first book.



Title of the second book.




If I now check for the text of all 'entry' nodes, the text for the node with 
the empty element isn't shown



import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
tree = ET.ElementTree(file='test.xml')
root = tree.getroot()
resultSet = root.findall(".//entry")
for r in resultSet:
print (r.text)
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Re: problems with xml parsing (python 3.3)

2012-10-27 Thread jannidis 
To my understanding the empty element is a child of entry as is the text node. 
Is there anything I am doing wrong here? Any help is appreciated,

Fotis
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Re: problems with xml parsing (python 3.3)

2012-10-29 Thread jannidis 
Am Sonntag, 28. Oktober 2012 03:27:14 UTC+1 schrieb [email protected]:
> Hello all, 
> 
> 
> 
> I am new to Python and have a problem with the behaviour of the xml parser. 
> Assume we have this xml document:
> 
> 
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> 
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> Title of the first book.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> Title of the second book.
> 
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> 
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> If I now check for the text of all 'entry' nodes, the text for the node with 
> the empty element isn't shown
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
> 
> tree = ET.ElementTree(file='test.xml')
> 
> root = tree.getroot()
> 
> resultSet = root.findall(".//entry")
> 
> for r in resultSet:
> 
>   print (r.text)

thanks a lot for your answer. as I am looking for a tool to teach using xml in 
programming it is a pity that this modul implements a very idiosyncratic view 
on xml data, but dom and sax are out there too, so I will look at them. 
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Re: problems with xml parsing (python 3.3)

2012-10-30 Thread jannidis 
If someone comes across this posting with the same problem, the best answer 
seems to be: 
avoid Pythons  xml.etree.ElementTree and use this library instead: 
http://lxml.de/
It works like expected and supports xpath much better. 
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