xml.etree.ElementTree – XML Manipulation API

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xml.etree.ElementTree – XML Manipulation API¶

Purpose: Python Version:

Generate and parse XML documents

2.5 and later

The ElementTree library was contributed to the standard library by Fredrick Lundh. It includes tools for parsing XML using event-based and document-based APIs, searching parsed documents with XPath expressions, and creating new or modifying existing documents.

Note

 

All of the examples in this section use the Python implementation of ElementTree for simplicity, but there is also a C implementation in xml.etree.cElementTree.

• Parsing XML Documents
  • Parsing an Entire Document
  • Traversing the Parsed Tree
  • Finding Nodes in a Document
  • Parsed Node Attributes
  • Watching Events While Parsing
  • Creating a Custom Tree Builder
  • Parsing Strings
• Creating XML Documents
  • Building Element Nodes
  • Pretty-Printing XML
  • Setting Element Properties
  • Building Trees from Lists of Nodes
  • Serializing XML to a Stream

See also

xml.etree.ElementTree

The standard library documentation for this module.

ElementTree Overview

Fredrick Lundh’s original documentation and links to the development versions of the ElementTree library.

Process XML in Python with ElementTree

IBM DeveloperWorks article by David Mertz.

lxml.etree

A separate implementation of the ElementTree API based on libxml2 with more complete XPath support.