I want my XML to look like this, with two schemas associated in the beginning: How can I achieve this using the lxml library in python: I know the first line is added using Answer The “first line” is the XML declaration. It’s a special construct that can only exist once in an XML file and its only purpose is
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Convert ReadyAPI xpath for use in Python 3
I’m having trouble converting xpath expressions that I use in ReadyAPI for use in Python 3 with the lxml library. I’ve read the lxml documentation but I’m not getting the same results. Here’s my XML: I use the following xpath expressions in ReadyAPI: //*:Reply[*:Name=”Name of Reply”]/*:ID the expected returned result is: ID of Reply 1 and: //*:Reply[*:Name=”Name of Reply”]/*:ContentsofReply/*:Content/*:IDofContent the
XML/lxml Parsing first occurrence using something like [0] maybe?
The code below returns all the “str1″‘s but I only want the first “str1” for each one of these: CrntRgstns->BrnchOfLocs->BrnchOfLoc. As in just “13A MAIN ST” not also “8 WATER ST.” Is there some type of [0] that would accomplish this? Thank you. Current Code: Current Output: Desired Output: xml for 1 individual: Answer To fetch first item, use [1]
How do I save an Element Tree to a list based on an attribute in a child tag using Python’s LXML module?
I have an xml document that I have to parse. I’m using python 3.8 and the lxml module. The XML contains Titles which has other child element tags like the xml below. I need to only find the “change” events and keep that “Title” in a list. I would like to save all of the tags of that title, so
How to solve module problem in Windows 10?
I have a code as below. I run this code using python 3.7 idle, which runs successfully. But when I save it as file.py and run it from using cmd, it pops import module error. My code: Error : cannot import name ‘html’ from ‘lxml’ I can not understand when both are running on the same python files why such
I am not able to resolve ‘lxml.etree.XPathEvalError: Invalid expression’ error on a legal XPATH expression
I am trying to parse an xpath but it is giving Invalid expression error. The code that should work: Expected result is a boolean value but it is showing error: Answer The exception is because name() isn’t a valid node type. Your XPath would only be valid as XPath 2.0 or greater. lxml only supports XPath 1.0. You would need
How to use BeautifulSoup to parse google search results in Python
I am trying to parse the first page of google search results. Specifically, the Title and the small Summary that is provided. Here is what I have so far: The part I am stuck on now is going down the HTML path to parse the specific data that I want. Everything I have tried so far has just thrown an
SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED certificate verify failed
-> SSLError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:748) I run this script but I got this error. How can I do it? Answer Since your URL is “an internal corporate URL” (as stated in comments), I’m guessing it uses a self-signed certificate, or is issued by a self-signed CA certificate. If that is in fact the case, you have two
How to parse xml from local file or url with lxml?
I try to use lxml to parse xml, but I have a problem: Here is my code: I’m a newbie on lxml. Please help me to fix this issue. There is my xml content One more, could we have parse xml from url with lxml. Thanks & Best Regards, Answer The reason you are getting the error message invalid x
Remove namespace and prefix from xml in python using lxml
I have an xml file I need to open and make some changes to, one of those changes is to remove the namespace and prefix and then save to another file. Here is the xml: I can make the other changes I need, but can’t find out how to remove the namespace and prefix. This is the reusklt xml I