I have some XML in a unicode-string variable in Python as follows:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<results preview='0'>
<meta>
<fieldOrder>
<field>count</field>
</fieldOrder>
</meta>
<result offset='0'>
<field k='count'>
<value><text>6</text></value>
</field>
</result>
</results>
How do I extract the 6
in <value><text>6</text></value>
using Python?
With lxml:
import lxml.etree
# xmlstr is your xml in a string
root = lxml.etree.fromstring(xmlstr)
textelem = root.find('result/field/value/text')
print textelem.text
Edit: But I imagine there could be more than one result...
import lxml.etree
# xmlstr is your xml in a string
root = lxml.etree.fromstring(xmlstr)
results = root.findall('result')
textnumbers = [r.find('field/value/text').text for r in results]