解析xml文件中的单词

Question

I have a xml file called "interview.xml" that looks like this:

<SpeechSegment spkid="S0">
    <Word dur="0.22" stime="0.44">oh</Word>
    <Word dur="0.27" stime="1.67">bedankt</Word>
    <Word dur="0.3" stime="2.03">voor</Word>
    <Word dur="0.53" stime="2.61">deelname</Word>
    <Word dur="0.22" stime="3.15">aan</Word>
    <Word dur="0.23" stime="3.39">de</Word>
    <Word dur="0.14" stime="6.15">want</Word>
    <Word dur="0.07" stime="6.29">ik</Word>
    <Word dur="0.09" stime="6.36">wil</Word>
    <Word dur="0.06" stime="6.45">je</Word>
    <Word dur="0.42" stime="6.51">graag</Word>
    <Word dur="0.2" stime="7.52">en</Word>
</SpeechSegment>

What I would like to do now is parse all the words from this segment, so I want to create a list like ["oh", "bedankt", "voor", etc...]

I tried this:

import xml.etree.ElementTree
e = xml.etree.ElementTree.parse('Interview_short.xml').getroot()

for atype in e.findall('type'):
    print(atype.get('word'))

But this does not give me the output I am looking for. Any thoughts what adjustments I should make?

Answer 1

Use ElementTree .

Solution:

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
root = ET.fromstring(xml_string)
required_list = [child.text for child in root]

Answer 2

I have no idea why findall('type') while the XML doesn't contain any <type> element. According to the XML posted, it should've been findall('Word') . Here is a minimal but complete codes for demo :

raw = '''<SpeechSegment spkid="S0">
    <Word dur="0.22" stime="0.44">oh</Word>
    <Word dur="0.27" stime="1.67">bedankt</Word>
    <Word dur="0.3" stime="2.03">voor</Word>
    <Word dur="0.53" stime="2.61">deelname</Word>
    <Word dur="0.22" stime="3.15">aan</Word>
    <Word dur="0.23" stime="3.39">de</Word>
    <Word dur="0.14" stime="6.15">want</Word>
    <Word dur="0.07" stime="6.29">ik</Word>
    <Word dur="0.09" stime="6.36">wil</Word>
    <Word dur="0.06" stime="6.45">je</Word>
    <Word dur="0.42" stime="6.51">graag</Word>
    <Word dur="0.2" stime="7.52">en</Word>
</SpeechSegment>'''

from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET
root = ET.fromstring(raw)
result = [word.text for word in root.findall('Word')]
print result

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output :

['oh', 'bedankt', 'voor', 'deelname', 'aan', 'de', 'want', 'ik', 'wil', 'je', 'graag', 'en']