I want to get a list of XML Elements based first on TagName and second on Attribute Value. I´m using the xml.dom library and python 2.7.
While it´s easy to get the first step done:
from xml.dom import minidom
xmldoc = minidom.parse(r"C:\File.xml")
PFD = xmldoc.getElementsByTagName("PFD")
PNT = PFD.getElementsByTagName("PNT")
I´ve been looking around but cannot find a solution for the second step. Is there something like a .getElementsByAttributeValue
that would give me a list to work with?
If the XML looks like this
<PFD>
<PNT A="1" B=.../>
<PNT A="1" B=.../>
<PNT A="2" B=.../>
</PFD>
In need all PNTs where A="1" in a list.
If you don't find a built-in method, why not iterate over the items?
from xml.dom import minidom
xmldoc = minidom.parse(r"C:\File.xml")
PFD = xmldoc.getElementsByTagName("PFD")
PNT = xmldoc.getElementsByTagName("PNT")
for element in PNT:
if element.getAttribute('A') == "1":
print "element found"
Adding the items to a list should be easy now.