ElementTree
- ElementTree(element=None, file=None)
An XML element hierarchy. This class also provides support for serialization to and from standard XML. *element* is an optional root element node, *file* is an optional file handle or file name of an XML file whose contents will be used to initialize the tree with.
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Members of ElementTree
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- _setroot
- Replace root element of this tree.
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- getroot
- Return root element of this tree.
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- parse
- Load external XML document into element tree.
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- write
- Write element tree to a file as XML.
1 Example
>>> from xml.etree.ElementTree import ElementTree >>> tree = ElementTree() >>> tree.parse("index.xhtml") <Element 'html' at 0xb77e6fac> >>> p = tree.find("body/p") # Finds first occurrence of tag p in body >>> p <Element 'p' at 0xb77ec26c> >>> links = list(p.iter("a")) # Returns list of all links >>> links [<Element 'a' at 0xb77ec2ac>, <Element 'a' at 0xb77ec1cc>] >>> for i in links: # Iterates through all found links ... i.attrib["target"] = "blank" ... >>> tree.write("output.xhtml")
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