parse xml to pandas data frame in python

Question

I am trying to read the XML file and convert it to pandas. However it returns empty data

This is the sample of xml structure:

Answer 1

Several issues:

• Calling .find on the loop variable, node, expects a child node to exist: current_node.find('child_of_current_node'). However, since all the nodes are the children of root they do not maintain their own children, so no loop is required;
• Not checking NoneType that can result from missing nodes with find() and prevents retrieving .tag or .text or other attributes;
• Not retrieving node content with .text, otherwise the object is returned;

Consider this adjustment using the ternary condition expression a if condition else b to ensure variable has a value regardless:

rows = []

s_name = xroot.attrib.get("ID")
s_student = xroot.find("StudentID").text if xroot.find("StudentID") is not None else None
s_task = xroot.find("TaskID").text if xroot.find("TaskID") is not None else None      
s_source = xroot.find("DataSource").text if xroot.find("DataSource") is not None else None
s_desc = xroot.find("ProblemDescription").text if xroot.find("ProblemDescription") is not None else None
s_question = xroot.find("Question").text if xroot.find("Question") is not None else None    
s_ans = xroot.find("Answer").text if xroot.find("Answer") is not None else None
s_label = xroot.find("Label").text if xroot.find("Label") is not None else None
s_contextrequired = xroot.find("ContextRequired").text if xroot.find("ContextRequired") is not None else None
s_extraInfoinAnswer = xroot.find("ExtraInfoInAnswer").text if xroot.find("ExtraInfoInAnswer") is not None else None
s_comments = xroot.find("Comments").text if xroot.find("Comments") is not None else None
s_watch = xroot.find("Watch").text if xroot.find("Watch") is not None else None
s_referenceAnswers = xroot.find("ReferenceAnswers").text if xroot.find("ReferenceAnswers") is not None else None

rows.append({"ID": s_name,"StudentID":s_student, "TaskID": s_task, 
             "DataSource": s_source, "ProblemDescription": s_desc , 
             "Question": s_question , "Answer": s_ans ,"Label": s_label,
             "s_contextrequired": s_contextrequired , "ExtraInfoInAnswer": s_extraInfoinAnswer ,
             "Comments": s_comments ,  "Watch": s_watch, "ReferenceAnswers": s_referenceAnswers     
            })

out_df = pd.DataFrame(rows, columns = df_cols)

Alternatively, run a more dynamic version assigning to an inner dictionary using the iterator variable:

rows = []
for node in xroot: 
    inner = {}
    inner[node.tag] = node.text

    rows.append(inner)

out_df = pd.DataFrame(rows, columns = df_cols)

Or list/dict comprehension:

rows = [{node.tag: node.text} for node in xroot]
out_df = pd.DataFrame(rows, columns = df_cols)