Python - 使用 ElementTree 使用重复标签解析 XML

Question

I have the following XML content:

<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Version</key><integer>1</integer>
    <key>Sub Version</key><integer>2</integer>
    <dict>
        <key>1</key>
        <dict>
            <key>ID</key><integer>1</integer>
            <key>Name</key><string>Frank</string>
        </dict>
        <key>2</key>
        <dict>
            <key>ID</key><integer>2</integer>
            <key>Name</key><string>Richard</string>
        </dict>
        <key>3</key>
        <dict>
            <key>ID</key><integer>3</integer>
            <key>Name</key><string>Sophia</string>
        </dict>
    </dict>
    <key>Persons</key>
    <array>
        <dict>
            <key>Name</key><string>Persons</string>
            <key>Description</key><string>empty</string>
        </dict>
    </array>
</dict>
</plist>

I'm having a hard time retrieving the names since this XML tags names are all the same and have no attributes. So far I've tried to access it using iteration over the "second depth dict" but I can't retrieve just what I want.

What I got:

from xml.etree import ElementTree as et

tree = et.parse("file.xml")
root = tree.getroot()

for i in root.find('dict').find('dict').iter('dict'):
    print ([j.text for j in i])

The output I want:

Frank
Richard
Sophia

Does anyone know how to access these values with such tags?

Answer 1

Try it using lxml instead:

from lxml import etree
plist = """your xml above"""

doc = etree.fromstring(plist)
doc.xpath('//dict/dict/key["name"]/following-sibling::string/text()')

output:

['Frank', 'Richard', 'Sophia']