finding elements by attribute with lxml

Question

I need to parse a xml file to extract some data. I only need some elements with certain attributes, here\'s an example of document:

Answer 1

Just for reference, you can achieve the same result with findall:

root = etree.fromstring("""

    
        

             some text
        
        

             some text
        
        

             some text
        
    

""")

articles = root.find("articles")
article_list = articles.findall("article[@type='news']/content")
for a in article_list:
    print a.text