Eksempel
from lxml import etree
"""
Selecting the names of all athlets from JAMAICA
by a Elementpath (allmost like XPATH)
No attempt to remove duplicates
"""
xmlfile="http://www.it.hiof.no/~borres/commondata/olympiade/all_results.xml"
#xmlfile="all_results.xml"
def testing1():
tree=etree.parse(xmlfile)
names=tree.findall(".//athlet[nation='JAM']/name")
for n in names:
print n.text
"""
Selecting the names of all athlets from a country
given as parameter, remove duplicates and sort
"""
def testing2(country):
tree=etree.parse(xmlfile)
path=".//athlet[nation='%s']/name"%country
names=tree.findall(path)
result=[]
for n in names:
if result.count(n.text)==0:
result.append(n.text)
result.sort()
print result
"""
Selecting all names as textcontent of
name tags identified by iterating a Elementpath
thorughout the tree
"""
def testing3():
tree=etree.parse(xmlfile)
names=[b.text for b in tree.iterfind(".//name")]
result=[]
for n in names:
if result.count(n)==0:
result.append(n)
result.sort()
for r in result:
print r
testing1()
testing2('JAM')
testing3()
