i have some data in xml like:
<test a=10 b=20>Hello</test>
<test a=30 b=40>Hi</test>
how do i read value of a, b as well as Hello, and Hi. I have done some thing like:
tt = xml.findall('test')
no = len(tt)
for i in range (0, no):
print tt[i].get(a)
print tt[i].get(b)
print xml.findtext('test')
this code outputs
10 20 Hello
30 40 Hello
which is wrong for second iteration it should print "Hi" in stead of "Hello".
You can simply iterate over the return list of xml.findall() rather than using indexes. Something like -
tt = xml.findall('test')
no = len(tt)
for t in tt:
print t.get('a')
print t.get('b')
print t.text
When you do - xml.findtext() runs the xpath on the complete xml again and gets the text for the first element it finds, that is why you are getting the issue. Just get the .text attribute from the xml element returned by xml.findall() as done above.
Here Python Doc says about findtext
findtext(match, default=None)
Finds text for the first subelement matching match. match may be a tag name or path. Returns the text content of the first matching element, or default if no element was found. Note that if the matching element has no text content an empty string is returned.
It always find the first subelement matching match hence always Hello.
