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Import the ElementTree object, open the relevant .xml file and get the root tag: import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET tree = ET.parse("yourXMLfile.xml") root = tree.getroot() There are a few ways to search through the tree. First is by iteration: for child in root: print(child.ta...

Import Element Tree module and open xml file, get an xml element import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET tree = ET.parse('sample.xml') root=tree.getroot() element = root[0] #get first child of root element Element object can be manipulated by changing its fields, adding and modifying attributes, a...

Import Element Tree module import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET Element() function is used to create XML elements p=ET.Element('parent') SubElement() function used to create sub-elements to a give element c = ET.SubElement(p, 'child1') dump() function is used to dump xml elements. ET.dump...

Sometimes we don't want to load the entire XML file in order to get the information we need. In these instances, being able to incrementally load the relevant sections and then delete them when we are finished is useful. With the iterparse function you can edit the element tree that is stored while ...

Starting with version 2.7 ElementTree has a better support for XPath queries. XPath is a syntax to enable you to navigate through an xml like SQL is used to search through a database. Both find and findall functions support XPath. The xml below will be used for this example <Catalog> &l...