ElementTree.parse
- ElementTree.parse(source, parser=None)
Load external XML document into element tree. *source* is a file name or file object, *parser* is an optional parser instance that defaults to XMLParser. ParseError is raised if the parser fails to parse the document. Returns the root element of the given source document.
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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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