Facing issues while parsing XML with namespaces in python while using lxml

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I am trying to access and modify a tag deep with in the hierarchy of an XML . I have used quite a few options to reach it . Please help me accessing and modifying the tag . Here is my XML :

<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:cre="http://www.code.com/abc/V1/createCase">
   <soapenv:Header><wsse:Security xmlns:wsse="http://docs.oasis-open.org/2" xmlns:wsu="http://docs.oasis-open.org/a.xsd"></wsse:Security>
   </soapenv:Header>
   <soapenv:Body xmlns:wsu="http://docs.oasis-open.org/30.xsd" wsu:Id="id-14">
      <cre:createCase>
         <cre:Request>
            <cre:ServiceAttributesGrp>
               <cre:MinorVer>?</cre:MinorVer>
            </cre:ServiceAttributesGrp>
            <cre:CreateCaseReqGrp>
               <cre:Language>English</cre:Language>
               <cre:CustFirstNm>Issue</cre:CustFirstNm>
               <cre:CustLastNm>Detection</cre:CustLastNm>
               <cre:AddlDynInfoGrp>
                  <cre:AddlDynInfo>
                           <cre:FieldNm>TM3</cre:FieldNm>
                           <cre:FieldVal></cre:FieldVal>
                  </cre:AddlDynInfo>
                  <cre:AddlDynInfo>
                           <cre:FieldNm>PM417</cre:FieldNm>
                           <cre:FieldVal>Not Defined</cre:FieldVal>
                  </cre:AddlDynInfo>
               </cre:AddlDynInfoGrp>
               <cre:CreateCriteriasGrp>
                  <cre:CreateCriterias>
                     <cre:CriteriaNm>CriticalReqDtlValidationReqd</cre:CriteriaNm>
                  </cre:CreateCriterias>
               </cre:CreateCriteriasGrp>
            </cre:CreateCaseReqGrp>
         </cre:Request>
      </cre:createCase>
   </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

I have to access and modify the value of "FieldVal" tag in "AddlDynInfo" Tag , where the corresponding value of "FieldNm" tag value is "PM417" (since there are two occurances of "AddlDynInfo" tag . As of now , I am stuck on the parent tag only , as I could not access it :

tree = etree.parse(template_xml)
root = tree.getroot()
for msgBody in root[1]:
  for createCase in msgBody:
    for request in createCase:
     print request
     for CreateCaseReqGrp in request.findall('{cre}CreateCaseReqGrp',namespaces=root.nsmap):
     print CreateCaseReqGrp

tuomur · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-20 08:26:01Z

1

Defined namespaces and XPaths make this quite easy. Your case would be something like this:

ns = {
    'soapenv': 'http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/',
    'cre': 'http://www.code.com/abc/V1/createCase'
}

for casereq in root.xpath(
    'soapenv:Body/cre:createCase/cre:Request/'
    'cre:CreateCaseReqGrp/cre:AddlDynInfoGrp/cre:AddlDynInfo', namespaces=ns):
    print casereq.xpath('cre:FieldNm/text()', namespaces=ns)
    print casereq.xpath('cre:FieldVal/text()', namespaces=ns)

answered Feb 20, 2015 at 8:26

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