How to retrieve the parent node using cElementTree?

Question

for the xml

  
     data1
  
  
     data2         


        

Answer 1

It seems you can get access to the parent from the child using version 1.3 of ElementTree (check http://effbot.org/zone/element-xpath.htm), by using xpath commands like child.find('../parent'). But I think python ships with version 1.2 or something.

You should also check for lxml which is compatible with etree and has full Xpath support http://lxml.de/