Python XPath SyntaxError: invalid predicate

Question

i am trying to parse an xml like

    

       
       XBV

       

        

Answer 1

ElementTree's XPath support is limited. Use other library like lxml:

import lxml.etree
root = lxml.etree.parse('test.xml')

path="./pages/page/paragraph[text()='GHF']"
print root.xpath(path)