Another recipe to convert xml file into a python dictionary. This recipe uses lxml
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def dictlist(node):
res = {}
res[node.tag] = []
xmltodict(node,res[node.tag])
reply = {}
reply[node.tag] = {'value':res[node.tag],'attribs':node.attrib,'tail':node.tail}
return reply
def xmltodict(node,res):
rep = {}
if len(node):
#n = 0
for n in list(node):
rep[node.tag] = []
value = xmltodict(n,rep[node.tag])
if len(n):
value = {'value':rep[node.tag],'attributes':n.attrib,'tail':n.tail}
res.append({n.tag:value})
else :
res.append(rep[node.tag][0])
else:
value = {}
value = {'value':node.text,'attributes':node.attrib,'tail':node.tail}
res.append({node.tag:value})
return
def main():
tree = etree.parse('test2.xml')
res = dictlist(tree.getroot())
if __name__ == '__main__' :
main()
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If you pass a xml file like this one <?xml version="1.0"?> <elements idc="002"> <element idl="0001"> <singleelem id="000"/> bbbb </element> <dragon> <moredragon type="fire" color="red"> Enter the dragon </moredragon> </dragon> </elements>
It will result in a dictionary like this
{'elements': {'attribs': {'idc': '002'}, 'tail': None, 'value': [{'element': {'attributes': {'idl': '0001'}, 'tail': '\n', 'value': [{'singleelem': {'attributes': {'id': '000'}, 'tail': '\nbbbb\n', 'value': None}}]}}, {'dragon': {'attributes': {}, 'tail': '\n', 'value': [{'moredragon': {'attributes': {'color': 'red', 'type': 'fire'}, 'tail': '\n', 'value': '\n\tEnter the dragon\n'}}]}}]}}
Each node is represented as a key/value pair, like this
{node.tag:{value: text or child nodes, tail: tail of the node, attributes: dict of node attributes}}
The node tag becomes the key. The value to the node key contains a list of further nodes or the node text when the node is a leaf. Node key value also contains node attributes and node tail.
XML in comment gobbled. Hi, You need to escape your XML as it did not show up.
How do I escape the xml. How do I escape the xml ? I tried putting xml in pre or code block but no luck.