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 it…
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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 Rep…
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. Curr…
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 t…
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 py…
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…
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 sel…
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