使用E树检索特定属性的值

Question

I have an XML document through which I want ti retrieve the value of specific attribute using e tree. Below is the document-snippet I have:

-<orcid-message>
    <message-version>1.2</message-version>
  -<orcid-profile type="user">
    -<orcid-identifier>
        <uri>http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5105-9000</uri>
        <path>0000-0001-5105-9000</path>

I want to retrieve the value of only 'path' I have tried so far:

tree = ET.parse(file)
root = tree.getroot()
for element in root:
    for all_tags in element.findall('.//'):
         if all_tags.text:
             print all_tags.text, '|', all_tags.tail

What should I do to only get the value of 'path'

Answer 1

You can use the Element class' find method with the path to the element you wish to pick out, for example:

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

tree = ET.parse("filename")
root = tree.getroot()
path = root.find("orcid-profile/orcid-identifier/path")
print(path.text)