使用minidom从URL解析XML和Python

时间:2012-10-12 10:48:24

标签: python xml parsing minidom

从网址解析以下xml时遇到问题。

我的网址路径中的XML示例:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 
<Documents>
    <class>
        <mid name="yyyyyyyyyyyyy"></mid>
        <person name="yyyyyyyyyy"></person>
        <url name="yyyyyyyyy"></url>
    </class>
    <class>
        <mid name="xxxxx"></mid>
        <person name="xxxxxxxxxx"></person>
        <url name="xxxxxxxxxxx"></url>
    </class>
</Documents>

下面是我的python代码;

def staff_list(request):

    url = http://path.to.url/
    dom = minidom.parse(urlopen(url))
    person = dom.getElementsByTagName('person')
    for i in person:
        print i.attributes['name'].value
在forloop中我想在xml中打印属于同一父类的person和url标记值。

我尝试使用跟随方法进行迭代,但获取“太多值以解包”错误

def staff_list(request):

    url = http://path.to.url/
    dom = minidom.parse(urlopen(url))
    person = dom.getElementsByTagName('person')
    mid = dom.getElementsByTagName('mid')
    url = dom.getElementsByTagName('url')
    for i,j,k in person,mid,url:
        print i.attributes['name'].value,j.attributes['name'].value,k.attributes['name'].value

有什么建议吗?

3 个答案:

答案 0 :(得分:2)

我想使用zip()来组合元素,我认为:

for i,j,k in zip(person, mid, url):

尽管如此,请使用ElementTree API代替您;与XML DOM API相比,该API远比pythononic更容易使用。

答案 1 :(得分:1)

如果您想坚持minidom,可以将循环更改为:

for cls in dom.getElementsByTagName('class'):
    person = cls.getElementsByTagName('person')[0]
    mid = cls.getElementsByTagName('mid')[0]
    url = cls.getElementsByTagName('url')[0]

    print person.attributes['name'].value
    print mid.attributes['name'].value
    print url.attributes['name'].value

正如@Martijn Pieters所说,看看ElementTree作为替代API。例如:

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
documents = ET.fromstring(xmlstr)
for cls in documents.iter('class'):
    person = cls.find('person')
    mid = cls.find('mid')
    url = cls.find('url')

    print person.get('name'), mid.get('name'), url.get('name')

答案 2 :(得分:0)

我会使用xpath和lxml.html: 极简主义的方法:

import lxml.html as lh
doc=lh.parse(test.xml)

In [70]: persons = doc.xpath('.//person/@name')

In [71]: urls=doc.xpath('.//person[@name]/following-sibling::url/@name')

In [72]: mids=doc.xpath('.//person[@name]/preceding-sibling::mid/@name')

In [73]: [[p,m,u]for p,m,u in zip(persons, mids, urls)]
Out[73]: 
[['yyyyyyyyyy', 'yyyyyyyyyyyyy', 'yyyyyyyyy'],
 ['xxxxxxxxxx', 'xxxxx', 'xxxxxxxxxxx']]