Further to the above....
I pass my found element 'Product' to ElementTree's handy print all
function
def print_all(element):
root = element
#Create an iterator
iter = root.getiterator()
#Iterate
for element in iter:
#First the element tag name
print "Element:", element.tag
#Next the attributes (available on the instance itself using
#the Python dictionary protocol
if element.keys():
print "\tAttributes:"
for name, value in element.items():
print "\t\tName: '%s', Value: '%s'"%(name, value)
#Next the child elements and text
print "\tChildren:"
#Text that precedes all child elements (may be None)
if element.text:
text = element.text
text = len(text) > 40 and text[:40] + "..." or text
print "\t\tText:", repr(text)
if element.getchildren():
#Can also use: "for child in element.getchildren():"
for child in element:
#Child element tag name
print "\t\tElement", child.tag
#The "tail" on each child element consists of the text
#that comes after it in the parent element content, but
#before its next sibling.
if child.tail:
text = child.tail
text = len(text) > 40 and text[:40] + "..." or text
print "\t\tText:", repr(text)
if the element i pass to the above is from
root = ElementTree(file='somefile.xml')
iter = root.getiterator()
#Iterate
for element in iter:
if element.tag == 'Product':
print_all(element)
I print all of my required element's attributes, children, children's
children, etc
However if i pass the element i get from iterparse
for event, elem in iterparse(filename):
if elem.tag == "Products":
print_all(elem)
else:
elem.clear()
i only get the attributes for <product> and a list of its children, no
further iteration into the children and the children's children
what am i missing?
