Find all nodes by attribute in XML using Python 2

Question

I have an XML file which has a lot of different nodes with the same attribute.

I was wondering if it\'s possible to find all these nodes using Python and any additi

Answer 1

You can use built-in xml.etree.ElementTree module.

If you want all elements that have a particular attribute regardless of the attribute values, you can use an xpath expression:

//tag[@attr]

Or, if you care about values:

//tag[@attr="value"]

Example (using findall() method):

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

data = """

    1
    2
    3
    4
    5

"""

parent = ET.fromstring(data)
print [child.text for child in parent.findall('.//child[@attr]')]
print [child.text for child in parent.findall('.//child[@attr="test"]')]

Prints:

['1', '2', '5']
['1', '5']